Question follow-through · 73479
Resident Doctors: Strikes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to prepare for resident doctor strikes since July 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to prepare for resident doctor strikes since July 2024.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2025
Answer published
The National Health Service makes every effort through rigorous contingency planning to minimise disruption as a result of industrial action and its impact on patients and the public.Resident doctors in England went on strike for five days from Friday 25 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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