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An NHS boss has warned that this week’s doctors’ strikes could ‘trample on hard-won’ progress in the NHS .

The ‘timing could hardly be worse’ for strikes starting this week ‘barring some miraculous intervention’, said NHS Providers chief executive, Daniel Elkeles.

“Not just because of looming winter pressures, the disruption and division in the wider workforce, or the increased delays and distress for patients,” he told the NHS Providers Conference today (November 11) at Manchester Central Convention Centre.

But because the ‘green shoots of the NHS recovery are taking root’, explained the health leader.

“They are tentative and fragile, they need nurturing, but they are real.

“Strikes in the NHS at any time would be a serious setback, but coming now it threatens to w

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