Striking doctors are being warned that the NHS will start formally collecting evidence of the harm to patients caused by their refusal to help struggling hospitals. The Telegraph has more.
Under strike protocols, hospital trusts can ask unions to allow doctors to cross picket lines and cover shifts if patient safety is compromised.
But all known requests relating to the current action have so far been rejected by the British Medical Association (BMA).
On Thursday, senior officials at NHS England wrote to the BMA – setting out steps to strengthen safety protocols and log evidence of all harm occurring when such requests are rejected.
It came as hospitals across the country came under strain, with critical incidents and black alerts declared in almost every part of the country, and A&E units repeating warnings that they could only handle “life threatening” cases.
Several hospitals issued public statements urging the public to take relatives home as soon as safely possible, in order to free up beds.
The letter is signed by Emily Lawson, the interim NHS Chief Operating Officer, Prof Sir Stephen Powis, the National Medical Director and Navina Evans, the Chief Workforce Officer.
In the letter, Prof Powis said health officials will now follow up every case where mitigations have been rejected, in order to compile a picture of the impact on services.
Hospitals have been told to specifically record all safety incidents during strikes “so that we can evidence harm and near misses which might have been avoided”.
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Did Toby believe a single word he said about replacing Braverman or that Cameron had anything useful to offer? Really?!
If Cleverley is the best Toby can put forward for the next leader things must be worse than I tought. To follow his analogy, however, the destruction will surely be half way between Nagosaki and Hiroshima 1946. Southampton 1945 looked better than the Tories will the morning after the GE.
Haven’t listened to this yet, but if Toby says a word in defence of Sunak I’ll thcweam and thcweam and thcweam until I’m thick.
How is the return of Cameron “bizarre”? It’s entirely in keeping with the direction of travel in every possible way.
Agreed. They’re simply getting all their political ducks in a line. If we view the landscape that the elites are playing on as a battleground, which it is, then they are preparing for a huge offensive.
I have decoded the Cameron thing. Rishi will be gone soon and Cameron will be PM. Interesting idea eh? There is much more to all this, and only Nadine Dorres has written anything about it. “The Plot:” her new book, is brilliant.
Finally got round to listing to the whole podcast. Toby is still remaining adamant that anyone raising any kind of eyebrow about the ease at which Hamas found itself in Israel as “distasteful”. I’ll ask the question again: Toby, do you find questions around the complicity of the US in 9/11 “distasteful”? What about the possibility that Bush and Blair knew full well that there were no WMD in Iraq before invading? “Distasteful”? What about the possibility that the US deliberately provoked Russia into conflict? That must also be “distasteful”, right? Are you saying that anyone who questions a States complicity in an act that causes civilian deaths are “distasteful”? You must be. Or are you just cherry picking and arbitrarily choosing what people can ask questions about and what they can’t?
Please respond Toby, as my respect for you is waning by the week. I’m sure I’m not alone.
Oh, and you guys had better change the name of the podcast (and this website actually). Either that or Toby needs to reacquaint himself with the definition of ‘sceptic’.
Not too long ago Natanyahu turned all children in his nation into Pfizer guinea pigs and locked up everyone who refused. I think it’s save to say that he doesn’t care for human life. It’s why I wouldn’t dismiss the idea of him allowing the recent terror attack to happen. Yes, it’s outrageous, but so is Netanyahu’s track record.