Red Medicine

Rita Issa: Why Is the NHS Going on Strike?

Episode Summary

In this episode Dr Rita Issa discusses the forthcoming strikes in the NHS. She explains the ongoing pressures faced by healthcare workers including austerity, privatization and poor working conditions and pay. Rita also explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has made all of these things worse and how workers are organizing ahead of unprecedented strike action in an attempt to turn things around for the benefit of workers and patients.

Episode Notes

In this episode Dr Rita Issa discusses the forthcoming strikes in the NHS. She explains the ongoing pressures faced by healthcare workers including austerity, privatization and poor working conditions and pay. Rita also explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has made all of these things worse and how workers are organizing ahead of unprecedented strike action in an attempt to turn things around for the benefit of workers and patients.