NHS Confederation responds to this week's strikes

Ahead of this week's strikes, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation said: 

“It’s clear this is becoming critical and we’ve rarely heard such strong and urgent expressions of concern from NHS leaders. There is now deep worry about the level of harm and risk that could occur this week with the ambulance strikes and we know this is only going to get worse with future strikes planned. The Government and unions must bring an end to this otherwise patients will suffer.”