Published on: 19 December 2023
If we have not contacted you, please attend your appointment as planned. The Trust will contact you if your appointment needs to be rescheduled due to strike action. We are asking patients to use services wisely during industrial action and take simple steps to help ensure care is available to patients who need it most.
- Regardless of any strike action taking place, it is really important that patients who need urgent medical care continue to come forward, especially in emergency and life-threatening cases – when someone is seriously ill or injured, or their life is at risk.
- If we have not contacted you, please attend your appointment as planned. The NHS will contact you if your appointment needs to be rescheduled due to strike action.
- GP and dental appointments are not expected to be significantly impacted by this strike action. Please continue to attend your GP appointments, unless you are contacted and told otherwise.
- The NHS is asking patients to use services wisely during industrial action and take simple steps to help ensure care is available to patients who need it most. This includes using 111 online as the first port of call for health needs and continuing to only use 999 if it is a life-threatening emergency.
- Patients should only call 999 if it is a medical or mental health emergency (when someone is seriously ill or injured and their life is at risk).
For further information for the public on industrial action, please visit the NHS England website: https://