NHS: Strikes
Commons · Question 92225 · Tabled 18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that patients are not adversely affected by strike action.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 24 Nov 2025
Our priority is to keep patients as safe as possible during any industrial action. The National Health Service makes every effort through rigorous contingency planning to minimise the disruption of industrial action and its impact on patients and the publ...