Peter Roderick

Mar 17, 2023 | nytimes.com | Allyson Pollock |Peter Roderick

On Dec. 15, nurses walked out and began the largest nurses’ strike in the history of Britain’s National Health Service. They were protesting working conditions that have left them burned out and stretched thin — and compromised patient safety — and wages that fell in the last decade in real terms. Ambulance workers joined them. This week, thousands of junior doctors went on strike for three consecutive days. “I come to work and can see that there’s a patient waiting eight hours to see a doctor.