{"id":87473,"date":"2026-04-07T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87473"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:35:12","slug":"streeting-says-striking-doctors-will-leave-patients-waiting-in-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/07\/streeting-says-striking-doctors-will-leave-patients-waiting-in-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Streeting says striking doctors will leave patients &#8216;waiting in pain&#8217;"},"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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62678\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/wes-streeting-change-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/wes-streeting-change-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/wes-streeting-change-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/wes-streeting-change-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/wes-streeting-change-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/wes-streeting-change.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Patients will be left \u201cwaiting in pain or anxiety longer than is necessary\u201d,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/wes-streeting\" 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}\">Wes Streeting<\/a>\u00a0has said, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/doctor-strikes-nhs-government-bma-b2950092.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}\">resident doctors begin a six-day walkout\u00a0<\/a>amid a row <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/streeting-says-striking-doctors-will-leave-patients-waiting-in-pain\/ar-AA20iwDi?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69d4c04fa42d4010876708cf6979caa6&amp;ei=72\">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>Patients will be left \u201cwaiting in pain or anxiety longer than is necessary\u201d,\u00a0Wes Streeting\u00a0has said, as\u00a0resident doctors begin a six-day walkout\u00a0amid a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87473","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\/2024\/06\/Wes-Streeting.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87473","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=87473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87474,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87473\/revisions\/87474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}