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Exclusive: Health secretary says Labour will not meet union’s pay demands but both sides can ‘win the peace’Wes Streeting: My message to doctors, after five days of strikes? Work with us – if you go to war with us, you’ll loseThe doctors union “will lo…
BMA chiefs overruled their negotiators because pay demands were not met, sources sayWes Streeting thought he had struck a deal with resident doctors to stop a five-day strike in England, only for the British Medical Association to then reject it, sourc…
An inquest into the former England cricketer’s death last year has recorded a conclusion of suicideThere were “failings” in the provision of former England cricketer Graham Thorpe’s care in the months before he died, a coroner has said, as a conclusion…
Picket-line turnout on first day of industrial action believed to be lower with hope of less disruption to NHS servicesThousands fewer resident doctors are thought to have joined picket lines on Friday during the first day of a five-day strike compared…
More than half of 1,000 Reform voters polled would be more likely to vote Labour if hospital waiting lists come downReform voters could be tempted to back Labour at the next election if there was more focus on a “bills and blue lights” strategy to repa…
BMA members on Manchester Royal Infirmary picket line had hoped Labour government would end pay disputeOutside Manchester Royal Infirmary, car horns beep as striking medics wave orange placards demanding “Pay Restoration for Doctors.”Most are decked ou…
Chancellor is advised to give herself more leeway in the next budget before adjusting taxation or spendingThe International Monetary Fund has urged Rachel Reeves to consider ending the pensions triple lock and charging for NHS treatment as it said the …
Health secretary says government doing all it can to ‘minimise risk and disruption’ as BMA says pay has fallen more in real terms since 2008 than rest of populationPatients in England: have you had treatment cancelled or postponed due to the planned re…
Up to 50,000 doctors stage five days of action from 7am on 25 July to 7am on 30 July after pay talks break downResident doctors in England have begun strike action after the British Medical Association and government failed to reach an agreement over p…
Exclusive: Health secretary urges medics not to join BMA industrial action on Friday Wes Streeting: this unnecessary strike will hurt patientsA strike by resident doctors “enormously undermines the entire trade union movement”, Wes Streeting has argued…