Thousands of planned appointments are being postponed.
Consultants will stop seeing many patients and will not be around to supervise the work of junior doctors.
They will provide so-called Christmas Day cover, meaning emergency care and a small amount of routine work. BBC News
See also:
- NHS Confederation warns consultants strike is 'a step into the unknown' NHS Confederation
- NHS braced for severe disruption due to first consultant strikes in a decade NHS England
- Consultants’ strike will bring NHS routine care to ‘virtual standstill’ The Daily Telegraph
- Consultants’ strike to put NHS care in England ‘at a standstill’, says top doctor The Guardian
- NHS 'at a standstill' as consultants set to strike for two days Sky News
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