Published 22nd July 2025

Responding to the news that the resident doctors strike will go ahead later this week, Rachel Power, Chief Executive of the Patients Association said:

"Unacceptable delays and barriers to accessing the care patients need have been the reality for years. This latest strike adds even more uncertainty for people who are waiting in pain, with anxiety, and without answers, and will leave more patients vulnerable and unsupported as their health and wellbeing deteriorates. It demonstrates a worrying disregard for the very real toll this further disruption will have on people’s health and their confidence in the healthcare system." 

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