{"id":262045,"date":"2025-11-14T08:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262045\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:23:14","slug":"use-yorkshire-health-services-wisely-during-strike-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262045\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Yorkshire health services &#8216;wisely&#8217; during strike &#8211; NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Resident doctors, who represent nearly half the medical workforce, were expected to walk out of emergency and routine care between 07:00 GMT on Friday and 07:00 GMT on Wednesday 19 November, with senior doctors brought in to cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All other NHS staff, including consultants and other specialist doctors, were expected to be working as usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Hamish McLure, regional medical director for NHS North East and Yorkshire, said staff would work to ensure as many services as possible continued to operate safely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re reminding people they should continue to use services as they normally would when they need urgent medical help \u2013 by using 999 and A&amp;E in life-threatening emergencies only,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr McLure said that for other health concerns, people should use the non-emergency NHS 111 service, GP services and pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saj Azeb, chief operating officer and deputy chief executive officer of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said consultants and associate specialist doctors would be working differently during the strike to ensure patient safety was maintained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Throughout this week some elective care and outpatient appointments will be postponed and rearranged so we can ensure we can continue to run emergency care services,&#8221; Mr Azeb said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Resident doctors, who represent nearly half the medical workforce, were expected to walk out of emergency and routine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-262045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}