NHS leaders have said the service is expecting "major disruption" as a result of the hot weather and the junior doctors' strike. Yellow heat health alerts are in place for many parts of the country until 5pm on Thursday, when medics will down tools and pick up placards. 2 Junior doctors will walk out for five days on June 27 Credit: PA 2 Yellow heat health alerts are in force for most of England Credit: UKHSA It will be the eleventh walkout by junior doctors from the British Medical Association (BMA) in England, as the bitter dispute over pay continues.
While the weather will cool slightly during the five-day industrial action, NHS bosses say that the current warm spell has already put strain on the service. And concerns have been raised about the impact that the strike will have on hospitals affected by a cyber attack earlier this month. Major hospitals Guys' and St Thomas' and King's in London are still running at reduced capacity after the incident , which saw Russian hackers publish patient names, dates of birth and blood test data .
But the BMA announced that some junior doctors would be given permission to work at the hospitals during the walkouts to "prevent dangerous delays to cancer care". Posting on X, formerly Twitter, it said: "To prevent dangerous delays to cancer care, we are granting a derogation for surgical registrars working on high-risk upper GI, head and neck, and lung cancers at three hospital trusts: Lewisham and Greenwich, Guys & St Thomas' and King's C.
