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My message to doctors, after five days of strikes? Work with us: if you go to war with us, you’ll lose

We value and rely on BMA members, but on this, we’ll stand firm. They are only hurting patients and themselves, says health secretary Wes Streeting

The Guardian - UK

NHS Spends £2m on 'Woke' Events Like Pride Crafting and Eurovision — While Doctors Strike Over Pay

The NHS is under fire for spending £2m on events like Pride and Eurovision while junior doctors continue striking over pay and working conditions.

International Business Times UK

BMA has ‘squandered the goodwill’ of Government – Streeting

Resident doctors returned to work on Wednesday following five days of strike action.

Evening Standard

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Wes Streeting’s divide and rule tactics may have won against the doctors – but more strikes are coming

This is the closest Labour has come to picking a fight with the unions. Still, public sector workers are struggling, and they have public sympathy, says Polly Smythe of Novara Media

The Guardian - UK

Junior doctors could strike again over pay

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The Independent UK

NHS lessens impact of doctors’ strike as fewer take to picket lines

Resident doctors have been on strike for five days.

Evening Standard

Doctors refuse to rule out more strikes as five-day walkout comes to an end

The Resident Doctors Committee said it would be willing to re-enter talks with Health Secretary Wes Streeting.

The Independent UK

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NHS chief accuses union of ‘extortionate’ pay strike demands

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The Independent UK

Crucial cancer surgeries axed during doctors’ strike as ‘BMA demands extortionate rates’ for medics to work

The Independent understands the BMA demanded that consultants who were asked to step in to cover strikes be paid thousands of pounds to cover a single night shift

The Independent UK

Resident doctors refuse to rule out further strikes

NHS officials have said that cancelled bookings will be rescheduled within two weeks.

The Independent UK

The right wants to kill off the NHS. Striking doctors are playing into their hands

The BMA’s demand for pay restoration is a slap in the face for the health secretary who gave them a 22% rise – and it’s testing the public’s sympathy, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

NHS chiefs and BMA in row over patient safety during doctors’ strike

NHS England and union in war of words over striking doctors being asked to deal with emergency situations

The Guardian - UK

Resident doctors’ focus on pay is doing untold damage to the NHS

Letters: Robert Behrman fears resident doctors are leading the NHS towards a change in its entire ethos, and Prof David Cameron has cancelled his BMA subscription over their strike this week, but Marianne Gemmeke has sympathy for their action

The Guardian - UK

Hospitals make record number of requests for doctors to work during strikes

BMA has said patient safety risks occurred at some hospitals during the weekend of strike action

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The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting ‘thought he had struck deal to halt strike by doctors’

BMA chiefs overruled their negotiators because pay demands were not met, sources say

Evening Standard

Tories would ban doctors’ strikes, Badenoch says

The Tory leader said that her party would introduce primary legislation to block medics from taking widespread industrial action.

The Independent UK

Starmer urged to drop key workers’ rights pledge to prevent ‘people dying’ from doctors’ strike

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has made an offer to work with the government to take on the ‘militant’ British Medical Association (BMA)

The Independent UK

Physician associates union takes Government to court over planned role changes

It follows findings by a Government-ordered report that PAs have been used as substitutes for doctors despite having significantly less training.

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The Independent UK

NHS patients told to brace for strikes up to Christmas

Sir Jim Mackey, chief executive of NHS England, warns that it will take a ‘huge effort’ to keep hospital waiting times down during a prolonged period of disruption

Evening Standard

NHS: Strike-hit appointments to be rebooked in two weeks but will impact others

Professor Meghana Pandit, NHS England’s co-national medical director said local trusts maintained services with ‘minimal disruption’.

The Guardian - UK

Fewer resident doctors thought to have gone on strike than in last year’s NHS stoppage

Picket-line turnout on first day of industrial action believed to be lower with hope of less disruption to NHS services

The Guardian - UK

‘Exactly what a union should be doing’: doctors in Manchester defend strike action

BMA members on Manchester Royal Infirmary picket line had hoped Labour government would end pay dispute

The Independent UK

Striking doctors will not hold this country to ransom, defiant Streeting tells BMA

Thousands of resident doctors are on strike until Wednesday at 7am

Evening Standard

Streeting: We are doing everything we can to minimise patient harm during strike

Thousands of resident doctors are on strike until Wednesday at 7am.

The Independent UK

Streeting warns doctors must feel ‘pain’ of strikes to prevent further action

The health secretary has warned industrial action could spread to other public sectors

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