invasion of ukraine. and the lengths people will go to to get around schemes that are supposed to reduce coming up on bbc news the fallout from the grand national is the death of three horses across the three day meeting, protest and arrest part of the best spark debate. good evening. the nhs in england said it had to cancel almost 200,000 operations and appointments last week during the four day strike by junior doctors, heaping four day strike byjunior doctors, heaping yet more pressure on the health service. over the past five months, almost half a million appointments have had to be rescheduled, and the nhs national medical director says with each strike, it becomes harder. and he wants the impact on patients and staff will continue to worsen. he warns. our health editor hugh pym reports. trying to get back to normal. are you comfortable as you are, lying on the bed? they are assessing patients who have come through this hospital s emergency department. fully staf
civil servants just staff. but with nurses, teachers, civil servants just some - staff. but with nurses, teachers, civil servantsjust some of - staff. but with nurses, teachers, civil servantsjust some of those | staff. but with nurses, teachers, l civil servantsjust some of those in civil servants just some of those in dispute, we have one big question this morning can we avoid a summer of strikes? in the last half hour, the health secretary has written to pat cullen, the woman who ll lead the nurses onto the picket lines for their most serious strike. she s here in the studio. and so will be the the cabinet minister, tory chairman, greg hands. how will the government stop that strike from happening? but you might wonder, does labour have a better answer? the shadow health secretary, wes streeting, is with us. and we ll lift our eyes to the heavens thejupiter icy moons explorer begins its eight yearjourney hunting for life beyond earth. professor carole mundell is the
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continues to allow doctors and nurses to spend their time on picket lines and not in their places of work, then of course the impact of those strikes, whether coordinated or not, will be felt by patients. 50 or not, will be felt by patients. so it is a or not, will be felt by patients. 50 it is a possibility. you are carefully trying to navigate here that it carefully trying to navigate here thatitis carefully trying to navigate here that it is not something you are trying to coordinate, but it is a possibility for our viewers this morning to hear that there might be a day in the next few months would neither doctors nor nurses at work. i don t think i can make it any clearer, laura. i have no plans in place as the general secretary of the royal college of nursing to plan strikes with junior doctors. one hospital boss has told the bbc in the last couple of days that they cannot comprehend how bad that might be, even as a vague possibility. could you reallyjustify it? you articulate the