{"id":87464,"date":"2026-04-06T21:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87464"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:34:23","slug":"voices-patients-are-out-of-patience-for-striking-doctors-as-are-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/06\/voices-patients-are-out-of-patience-for-striking-doctors-as-are-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices: Patients are out of patience for striking doctors \u2013 as are colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1SAvEu.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=465&amp;y=176&amp;s=543&amp;d=92\" alt=\"Hospitals \u2018nowhere near out of the woods\u2019 as flu cases rise\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is no exaggeration to say that one of the main reasons the nation voted less than two years ago to elect the first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/labour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Labour<\/a>\u00a0government since 2010 was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/nhs-government-health-secretary-england-wes-streeting-b2952257.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">to end the chaos in the National Health Service<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/voices-patients-are-out-of-patience-for-striking-doctors-as-are-colleagues\/ar-AA20hF8l?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69d41feab45248cdac668a4c50d7fa7e&amp;ei=31\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>It is no exaggeration to say that one of the main reasons the nation voted less than two years ago to elect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Junior-doctors-strike.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87465,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87464\/revisions\/87465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}