More than 20 patients wait at the door to be triaged as inexperienced staff step in to try to keep one London department operating on the second day of the walkout.
While supportive of his junior colleagues outside on the picket lines, he said the system they were all working in, even on non-strike days, was unsustainable with current demands and staffing levels."The workforce crisis is an immediate issue that we need to face, particularly with the junior doctor strike… that's just an immediate issue.
"There are many challenges facing the NHS and the only way we're going to address those in the short term and build a sustainable future is to invest in technology, because we're not going to solve the workforce crisis overnight."Junior doctors' strike: ‘We’re being set up to fail’"Like most of my colleagues I have stayed a little bit longer to finish a few things for my patients," he said.
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