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Hello and welcome to Coffee Hair Shots, suspected to the Daily Politics podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and this is a Sunday Roundup.

The NHS is bracing itself as the strike date set by the Royal College of Nursing

began to loom.

But the first take place on Thursday the 15th.

Laura Cunesberg set to have a Stephen Powers, the Medical Director of NHS England,

to discuss how the health service was likely to fare over the next few months.

Unsurprisingly, the prognosis was not good.

Do you have an idea of how many procedures might be cancelled?

There are all sorts of numbers out there.

There's a suggestion there might be 15,000 procedures that don't go ahead.

Is there a number you can share with people this morning?

I don't think it's possible to put a number on it at the moment.

We will need to wait until the action occurs on Thursday and see what disruption occurs.

But remember as I said, the majority of hospitals in England are not being affected this Thursday.

In terms of the potential in the next few months though, it's possible that these strikes

will go on for many months.

We know already, waiting lists, backlogs, ambulance waiting times are already at record levels in many cases.

I mean are you worried about the potential impact of this beyond this week?

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