Staffing across Homerton Healthcare will be stretched during the BMA resident doctor industrial action, with changes to how we deliver our non-urgent services from 7am on Friday 14 November to 7am on Wednesday 19 November.

Impact is likely to be felt in the days following the strike periods too.

As always, the Trust is prioritising patient safety and patients with urgent care needs. 

Our admission avoidance services; SDEC will be running a nurse led service for the periods of industrial action. During this time GPs should continue to refer urgent patients through the established urgent and emergency care pathways. There is no change to the GP pathways to refer urgent cases. If you call the switchboard as normal, you will be connected to the appropriate support.

There may be an impact on response times for Advice and Guidance services. Please continue to submit your requests in the usual way, but there may be some delay in receiving a response both during the industrial action and for a few days afterwards. Teams will do all they can to reply to your request as soon as they can.