The Belfast Trust will not answer any calls made to switchboard on Thursday, it has been confirmed
It comes as thousands of health workers across Northern Ireland will take to the picket lines tomorrow in a row over pay and conditions. In a statement issued by the Trust this afternoon, a spokesperson confirmed details around their switchboard service.
Workers with the unions, Nipsa, Unison, Unite and the GMB, are staging the action. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service says it has engaged with Trade Union representatives "to identify services and roles that will be exempt from strike action to ensure that a response continues to the most clinically urgent patients, thereby balancing the right to strike with patient safety".
"We anticipate that there will be lengthy delays in responding to these categories of calls. To ensure that we maintain the levels of cover required to respond to the most urgent calls, we would ask the public to call us only in life-threatening emergencies such as cardiac arrest, loss of consciousness, breathing difficulties, severe bleeding and others.
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