Hospitals are said to be coping well despite the absence of potentially thousands of striking resident doctors. ''Work usually undertaken by striking [registrars] and house officers is being taken up by senior doctors, clinical nurse specialists and those junior doctors who are not union members or have chosen not to strike. ''The cumulative impact of this longer period of strike action is expected to be felt over the latter half of the strike.'' The senior doctors who are standing in and junior doctors not on strike are working.'' He said 14 members of the Resident Doctors' Association, the union behind the strike, were working.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 17, 2017 01:30 UTC