‘Expect major disruption’, patients warned as junior doctors’ strike and hot weather heap ‘significant pressure’ on NHS

NHS service in England is bracing for a major disruption due to the current hot weather and a five-day junior doctors’ strike set to start on June 27. Amid yellow heat health alerts, NHS leaders fear the impact of the junior doctors’ eleventh walkout, an ongoing pay dispute, and the pressures already being felt by the health service due to the warm spell. Exceptional arrangements are in place for some doctors to continue working to prevent dangerous delays to cancer care.