{"id":128875,"date":"2020-01-22T15:03:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T14:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/22\/as-a-junior-doctor-in-ae-im-calling-on-all-my-colleagues-in-britain-to-go-on-strike-andrew-meyerson\/"},"modified":"2020-01-22T15:03:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T14:03:37","slug":"as-a-junior-doctor-in-ae-im-calling-on-all-my-colleagues-in-britain-to-go-on-strike-andrew-meyerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=128875","title":{"rendered":"As a junior doctor in A&amp;E I\u2019m calling on all my colleagues in Britain to go on strike | Andrew Meyerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need to shine a light on the slow starvation of the NHS: the lack of beds, staff and social care is putting services at riskAt NHS hospitals across the country, when a patient has a cardiac arrest or other major medical emergency, we dial \u201c2222\u201d to summon the emergency team. Today we find the NHS itself is in a state of emergency \u2013 and my call here for an A&amp;E general strike is the \u201c2222\u201d alert our health system desperately needs.We don\u2019t have enough beds in the NHS \u2013 in England alone we have lost nearly 17,000 since 2010. In fact in the last 45 years NHS beds have declined by 60%; there were 350,000 nationwide before Margaret Thatcher, about 127,000 as of last year. Conservative policy decisions have destroyed our bed capacity. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jan\/22\/a-and-e-strike-junior-doctor-nhs-risk\" target=\"_blank\">As a junior doctor in A&amp;E I\u2019m calling on all my colleagues in Britain to go on strike | Andrew Meyerson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need to shine a light on the slow starvation of the NHS: the lack of beds, staff and social care is putting services at riskAt NHS hospitals across the country, when a patient has a cardiac arrest or other major medical emergency, we dial \u201c2222\u201d to summon the emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}