Wes Streeting has warned the combination of surging super flu cases and the junior doctors’ strikes next week means the NHS faces its worst week since the first days of the pandemic. ‘One minute to midnight…’
Speaking to Nick Ferrari on LBC this morning, Streeting blasted the BMA for holding the NHS to ransom and putting staff at risk:
“The thing that I am genuinely fearful of is even if I throw more money at this situation now at this time to get us through the next week of strikes, there’s only a finite number of doctors and staff. There’s only a finite number of care home beds and community-based care… So if you’ve got strikes and you’ve got flu, and you’ve got all these challenges on corridors, and you’ve got demand going up rather than down, I just don’t think there’s a lever I can pull, I don’t think there’s an amount of money I can throw that means I can sit on your programme and guarantee patient safety over the next week… I don’t understand why the BMA have not been willing to compromise.”
We are a long way from ‘getting around the table’ and ending the threat of strikes just by electing a Labour government…
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