A cancer patient was left distraught after her urgent operation this week was cancelled due to NHS strikes.
Monika Schiffer, from Bournemouth, was diagnosed with breast cancer in January this year and endured six rounds of chemotherapy to reduce the size of the tumours.
The 51-year-old was scheduled to undergo a double mastectomy — surgery to remove both breasts — yesterday.
But last month, just days after it was announced consultants and junior doctors would be taking to the picket
Patients have been left in tears after being told their NHS appointment has been cancelled due to the strikes — with some having to wait more than a month for it to be rescheduled.
Shaun Howe, a delivery driver from the Isle of Wight whose knee replacement is infected, said he was ‘devastated’ when his appointment was postponed and warned that lives are at risk due to delays in care.
Lauren Golding, a construction worker from Essex who is suffering
Striking junior doctors were today accused of running a ‘politically-motivated’ campaign aimed at bringing down the Government.
The British Medical Association (BMA) welcomed a pay offer from the Scottish government last month and is balloting its members on the package north of the border.
But Dr Robert Laurenson, co-chair of the BMA’s junior doctors committee, sparked fury by signalling he would not agree the same deal with the ‘ideological’ Tories in Westminster.
Junior doctors, seeking a salary hike of 35
The nursing union plotting devastating walk-outs across the NHS today threatened more chaos in the coming months unless ministers cave into its pay demands.
The Royal College of Nursing today unveiled that the initial round of strikes will take place on December 15 and 20. It marks the first UK-wide walk-out in the union’s 106-year history.
Pat Cullen, general secretary of the RCN, claimed the action, which insiders fear will cost lives, was a result of Government ‘choosing strikes over
Up to one million NHS workers could walk out over pay conditions this winter, prompting fears that blood tests will be delayed, chemotherapy cancelled and dialysis treatments postponed if strikes go ahead.
Unite has become the seventh union to announce a ballot, meaning that up to two-thirds of service staff could be involved in strike action over the coming months.
Biomedical scientists are being asked to join the walk out, according to The Daily Telegraph, depriving hospitals of staff members
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