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Doctors and senior hospital figures – as well as the official statistics – paint a bleak picture. But is there cause for hope?Dr Nick Scriven can pinpoint the exact day he realised the NHS could no longer cope. “I first noticed it when I was on call on…
Health secretary made clear he was open to further uplift on salaries but not while NHS junior doctors are planning to strikeDoctors in England could be offered a bigger pay rise after the health secretary admitted there needed to be “movement on both …
Exclusive: Poll finds large majority in UK think key principle of health service will be dropped in next decadeSeven in 10 people in the UK believe charges for NHS care will creep in over the next decade, ending the health service’s record of being fre…
Doctors’ union claims its members are labelled ‘troublemakers’ for speaking up about their concernsNHS whistleblowers need stronger legal protection to prevent hospitals using unfair disciplinary procedures to force out doctors who flag problems, the B…
Warning from head of NHS in England comes as minister blames junior doctors of walking away from talksThe head of the NHS in England has warned patients will “pay the price” because ministers and health unions have failed to stop unprecedented strikes …
Exclusive: Surveys show steady support for industrial action by doctors and nurses in pay disputeMost Britons support healthcare workers in their wave of strikes over pay and conditions this year despite the worsening disruption, polling shows.About tw…
Health service shown to be under some of worst pressure in its history in week Rishi Sunak launched plan to retain and recruit workforce• ‘You start thinking you will crack’: former NHS tell their storiesNearly 170,000 workers left their jobs in the NH…
Health bosses will welcome tens of thousands of new recruits, but the plan has little to say on how to change the culture to keep themIt was on 8 November 2017 that Jeremy Hunt, the then health secretary, first promised that the government would bring …
Unions say government proposals to cut training by a year and introduce apprenticeships could dilute skillsWhat is the government’s NHS workforce plan?Plans to shorten medical training could dilute the calibre of doctors entering the NHS in England and…
Society of Radiographers members reject offer, pushing for deal they say could help cut waiting listsThousands of radiographers in England have voted to go on strike, the first time they are to take industrial action in the increasingly bitter healthca…