Prognosis
There’s Never Been a Worse Time to Get Sick in the UK
- Nurses and ambulance workers prepare for fresh strike action
- National Health Service faces biggest crisis in its history
Demonstrators hold placards on a picket line during a strike by NHS nursing staff outside St. Thomas' Hospital in London, on Dec. 15.
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Hospital waiting lists are growing. Pharmacies are running out of antibiotics. Nurses have been taking industrial action for the first time in their history and over the next week ambulance drivers will join them — with strikes planned for Wednesday.