Thousands more appointments were expected to be cancelled as a result of today's strike by nurses and ambulance workers - the biggest in the history of the NHS and the first time the two groups have staged stoppages at the same time - pushing the total into six figures. But, asked what harm industrial action was causing to the sick and dying, he added: 'We've seen the impact in terms of appointments and patient procedures - 80,000 or so appointments cancelled and 11,000 in-patient operations in terms of the strikes to date - so there is an impact on patients'. Mr Barclay tried to downplay the scale of the latest walk-out by tens of thousands of workers during a visit to Kingston Hospital in south west London, saying 'the majority of trusts are not on strike'. The number of operations and treatments cancelled by NHS strikes soars past 100,000 as unions return to picket lines this week, with Health Secretary Steve Barclay warning of the impact on patients. Not all countries had data for both kinds of GPs because of how health systems are set up abroad It split family doctor earnings based on if they were self-employed, such as partners who run a practice, as well as salaried GPs who are employed to work there. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published the data on European GP salaries for 2020 in December. By contrast, family doctors in Britain - who earn £112,000, on average in the NHS - are paid 340 per cent more, according to the same report. Other data published by the OECD in December showed up GPs in Germany earn 440 per cent more than the average national wage. The UK came fifth in the global rankings of self-employed GP earnings, only just beating Ireland (£128,405). Germany, Denmark and Luxembourg also paid their family doctors more generously, all having average salaries breaching £15,000. The figure, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is over one-and-a-half times the £133,225 a British GP earns, according to the data. Self-employed GPs working in Switzerland just under the equivalent of £220,987 per year. While Brits may grumble about how much GPs here earn, spare a thought for our neighbours across the continent where family doctors can earn up to one-and-a-half times what they earn in the UK. 'Ministers in England don't seem to want to listen, leaving NHS workers and the English public being treated like second-class citizens.' GMB ambulance workers held their last strike on Monday, industrial action which coincided with the NHS nurses' strike. 'As industrial action spreads to all corners of England, the Scottish and Welsh Governments have begun constructive talks with the GMB and seen walkouts suspended. GMB organiser Lola McEvoy said: 'East of England was the only ambulance trust in the country not to have been on strike - that will now change. The next GMB ambulance strike date for the rest of England is on February 20. Union officials said they will now meet in the coming days to discuss when the next strike will be held in the region. This means that ambulance staff across the entirety of England are now in open dispute with the Government and will take to the picket line during the next bout of industrial action. The East of England which has been spared the wrath of the NHS ambulance strikes is immune no longer with 1,000 staff from the union GMB now voting to join their fellows on the national picket line. Both months saw industrial action by unions representing ambulance drivers, paramedics and 999 call handlers disrupt NHS services. In comparison December saw only a one-five calls going unanswered despite that month being far busier for NHS ambulance services. The data also show that about one-in-four of 999 calls made by desperate Brits went unanswered by operators in January. However, it is still double the NHS target that paramedics should arrive on the scene within 18 minutes of these calls on average, which also include suspected strokes and major burns. The figure is a massive improvement on the record hour-and-a-half wait for an ambulance for category 2 emergencies recorded in December. English ambulances only took 32 minutes on average to respond to emergencies like heart attacks in January, according to the latest NHS data. NHS ambulance and A&Es performance in England has recovered significantly since December the latests NHS data has shown but still far too many people waited too long for ambulances in January.
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