NHS Providers boss warns of health service ‘looking into abyss’ if consultants strike

The NHS will be “looking into the abyss” if hospital consultants follow the example of junior doctors and go on strike over pay, the leader of England’s hospital bosses has said. Hospitals will be left unable to function normally if consultants – the most senior doctors on wards – stage walkouts in pursuit of their pay claim, Sir Julian Hartley said. “If consultants withdraw their labour, as junior doctors are doing again this week, that would be unthinkable without considerable derogations,” said the chief executive of NHS Providers. “It would be incredibly difficult to run a hospital and other critical services.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/16/nhs-providers-boss-health-service-abyss-if-consultants-strike

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