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The vast majority of pre-planned appointments and procedures at the Royal Preston and Chorley and South Ribble hospitals will be postponed next week to cope with strike action by junior doctors.
Junior doctors are set to strike for 96 hours from 7am next Tuesday in a dispute over pay. The British Medical Association wants a 35 percent rise for junior grade staff, claiming that their wage has waned in real terms by 26 percent since 2008/09.Mr.
He said that the trust’s “objective” was not to delay any cancer appointments, but acknowledged that he could not rule out some short-notice postponements for any patient next week, because of the chance of rostered staff calling in sick, especially with Covid prevalence remaining high. "So some people will wait longer than we would hope, but we have no option – the capacity just isn’t there to replace the work quickly.”
The government has dismissed the BMA’s pay claim as “unreasonable”, but Mr. McGee said that while he was not “taking sides” in the dispute – and supported the right of staff to strike – he hoped that all parties could find a swift resolution to ensure that next week’s walk-out is the last, as each one becomes “harder to cope with”.
“So we’ve got a really short window [during which] we really need to push in terms of the recovery numbers for elective work,” Mr. McGee said.
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