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May 2023
Harrogate hospital pledges to maintain services amid junior doctors' strike
Harrogate District Hospital has pledged to ensure services are maintained ahead of a planned 72-hour walkout by junior doctors.
The British Medical Association announced it will take action after talks with government over a pay increase broke down.
Staff will walkout at 7am on Wednesday, June 14, until 7am on Saturday, June 17.
Officials at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust have said that a “strike planning team” will be set up to maintain services during the industrial action.
Patients will be urged to attend appointments as normal unless contacted to reschedule.
A spokesperson for the trust said:
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The walkout will be the third time junior doctors have taken strike action this year.
In April, 470 appointments and 21 operations were cancelled and rescheduled at Harrogate District Hospital as a result of the second round of strikes.
The move comes as the BMA described the latest government pay offer of a 5% increase for junior doctors as “in no way credible”.
Dr Vivek Trivedi and Dr Robert Laurenson, co-chairs of the BMA junior doctors committee, said the government “would simply not accept the fundamental reality of the pay cuts” staff had faced.
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In response, Steve Barclay, health and social care secretary, described the news of the walkout as “disappointing”.
He said:
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