Consultants and specialist doctors to begin strike action
Most routine and elective services will be cancelled but full emergency cover will remain in place.
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"No doctor wants to take strike action. However, there is a palpable sense of anger among all secondary care doctors at years of significant pay erosion in return for trying to deliver care in an overstretched health system."
— Dr David Farren , Activist
"Doctors are choosing to leave the health service or to reduce their contracted hours due to continued pay erosion and we can see the outworkings of this in services having to close due to staffing shortages."
— Dr Leanne Davison , Activist
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Most routine and elective services will be cancelled but full emergency cover will remain in place.
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