{"id":4433,"date":"2025-12-18T20:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2025-12-18T20:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:35:21","slug":"strikes-could-collapse-flu-hit-nhs-amid-worst-crisis-since-covid-says-streeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/18\/strikes-could-collapse-flu-hit-nhs-amid-worst-crisis-since-covid-says-streeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Strikes could collapse flu-hit NHS amid worst crisis since Covid, says Streeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting has warned that upcoming strikes by resident doctors could be the &#8220;Jenga piece&#8221; that causes the NHS to collapse during a severe winter flu season. Hospital admissions for flu have risen by 55% in a single week, creating pressure comparable to the worst periods of the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials are urging doctors to accept the latest government pay offer to avoid compromising patient safety during this critical period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 12, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/dec\/12\/christmas-strikes-resident-doctors-jenga-piece-collapses-nhs-wes-streeting\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting has warned that upcoming strikes by resident doctors could be the &#8220;Jenga piece&#8221; that causes the NHS to collapse during a severe winter flu season. Hospital admissions for flu have risen by 55% in a single week, creating pressure comparable to the worst periods of the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":4435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-pandemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4436,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/4436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}