A 48-hour strike by senior doctors in England will start on Thursday and will see major disruption to NHS services and patient appointments.
NHS England has warned that planned industrial action, which follows five days of strikes by junior doctors, could have the most “severe impact.”
Senior doctors will not be seeing patients from 7am on Thursday until 7am on Saturday and will not be supervising junior doctors.
NHS national medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis said that routine care will be “virtually at a standstill for 48 hours.”
The NHS will in effect experience two “Christmas Day service” days in a row, meaning small routine care and emergency work will still be carried out….