The Guardian warns the decision by people not to request help during the ambulance strike will leave the “NHS struggling to cope at a time when hospitals would traditionally be scaling back their services for the festive break”. One hospital boss told the paper: “After the strike ends, we’ll have [ambulance] crews picking up the people who’ve been at home on the floor for a long time, plus the people who didn’t try to come in on Wednesday because they knew about the strike.”