Health leaders warn NHS ‘struggling to catch its breath’ amid strikes

Health leaders warn NHS ‘struggling to catch its breath’ amid strikes

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ack-to-back strikes by junior doctors and consultants will leave the NHS “struggling to catch its breath”, health leaders have said.

Junior doctors in England went out on strike from 7am on July 13 to 7am on July 18.

The five-day walkout was the longest in NHS history and is expected to have led to hundreds of thousands of operations, procedures and appointments being cancelled or postponed.