{"id":12071,"date":"2025-12-12T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/uk-faces-unprecedented-wave-of-super-flu-as-nhs-warns-of-worst-case-scenario-ahead-of-christmas\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:40:08","slug":"uk-faces-unprecedented-wave-of-super-flu-as-nhs-warns-of-worst-case-scenario-ahead-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/uk-faces-unprecedented-wave-of-super-flu-as-nhs-warns-of-worst-case-scenario-ahead-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"UK faces unprecedented wave of super flu as NHS warns of worst-case scenario ahead of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LONDON, Dec 12 — The UK is facing an “unprecedented wave of super flu”, a health chief warned today as the health minister urged doctors to call off a threatened five-day strike ahead of Christmas.<\/p>\n

Wes Streeting said the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) was in an “incredibly precarious situation” as flu cases mounted, and was facing a “challenge unlike any it has seen since the pandemic”.<\/p>\n

NHS figures published on Thursday showed flu cases at a record level for the time of year.<\/p>\n

The number of cases jumped 55 percent in a week to an average of 2,660 patients in hospital each day last week.<\/p>\n

“With record demand… and an impending resident (junior) doctors strike, this unprecedented wave of super flu is leaving the NHS facing a worst-case scenario for this time of year,” said NHS National Medical Director Meghana Pandit.<\/p>\n

Streeting said the numbers could triple before the peak and said the situation in hospitals was already “inexcusable”.<\/p>\n

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“That’s why I am appealing directly to resident doctors to accept the government’s offer,” he wrote in The Times newspaper.<\/p>\n

The functioning of the NHS is a major political issue in Britain, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s beleaguered Labour government under pressure to bring down waiting times.<\/p>\n

The planned strike from Wednesday will be the 14th walkout by medics since March 2023 if it goes ahead.<\/p>\n

Attempts to reduce patient waiting lists have been affected in part by the repeated industrial action by both resident doctors and consultants.<\/p>\n

The resident doctors—those below consultant level—are in dispute with the government over pay and a shortage of training opportunities.<\/p>\n

Streeting has agreed to the doctors’ union’s demand that UK-trained medics get priority for training posts over candidates from overseas.<\/p>\n

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The number of training places will also be boosted.<\/p>\n

But he insists the government “cannot and will not move on pay, especially not after a 28.9-percent pay rise over the last three years and the highest pay award across the entire public sector in the last two”.<\/p>\n

The British Medical Association, which represents resident doctors, is demanding an extra 26 percent it says is needed to achieve pay restoration after years of below inflation pay deals.<\/p>\n

It is due to put the government’s new deal to members in an online survey, which will close on Monday. — AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LONDON, Dec 12 — The UK is facing an “unprecedented wave of super flu”, a health chief warned today as the health minister urged doctors to call off a threatened five-day strike ahead of Christmas. Wes Streeting said the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) was in an “incredibly precarious situation” as flu cases mounted, and was…<\/p>\n

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