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Ministers urged to provide more graduate training slots for UK medical students

The BMA said 20,000 medical graduates will miss out on further training due to a lack of slots as international graduates soar.

The Independent UK

Hospital consultants may strike with junior doctors in pay row escalation

BMA warns government faces ‘several groups of doctors on picket lines together later this year’

The Independent UK

Senior doctors asked about prospect of industrial action amid row over pay

Doctors in England were given a 4% pay uplift this year.

The Independent UK

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Resident doctors have good reason to strike over pay

Letters: Readers reflect on the hardships faced by younger medics and those training, and the degradation of an entire public service

The Guardian - UK

Senior medics in England say more resident doctor strikes would be futile

Exclusive: Letter from six top figures says more walkouts by junior colleagues would help those who oppose the NHS

The Guardian - UK

Striking junior doctors no longer have public’s backing, Wes Streeting says

The health secretary’s intervention marks a drastic shift in tone after he brought months of strike action to an end last year by handing doctors a 22 per cent pay rise within weeks of entering office

The Independent UK

Health secretary urges no strikes as ballot of junior doctors begins

Patients Association fears winter of delays as Wes Streeting calls for no vote from resident doctors in England who argue pay has fallen 23% in real terms since 2008

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Streeting urges doctors to vote against strike action

Resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, in England are being balloted for strike action by the British Medical Association (BMA).

Evening Standard

Resident doctors start receiving ballots for strike action

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has urged doctors in England to ‘vote no’

The Independent UK

Resident doctors in England start receiving ballots for industrial action

It comes after ministers announced last week that most doctors would receive a 4% pay rise.

Evening Standard

Ministers brace for NHS strikes after doctors denounce ‘derisory’ pay rise

Other NHS staff decry their award, while teachers are angered part of their pay rise will come from school budget

The Guardian - UK

Doctors threaten strike action after 4% pay rise announcement

The British Medical Association, the union representing doctors, has said the pay rise does not go far enough in restoring historical pay freezes.

The Independent UK

GP jobs ‘crisis’ leaves qualified doctors considering unemployment benefits

Leading doctors have called for special funding to enable more GPs to be employed in England.

Evening Standard

Search for bodies ends at Bangkok collapse site

Efforts to recover the bodies of those lost in the collapse of the State Audit Office building in Bangkok, triggered by the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar on March 28, have ended, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration announced on Saturday.

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Evening Standard

Doctor ballot for strike action is ‘premature’ and ‘unnecessary’, says Streeting

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said doctors have now got a Government that is sympathetic to the pressures they are facing.

Evening Standard

Resident doctors in England to be balloted on strike action over pay

The ballot will open on May 27 and closes on July 7.

The National (Scotland)

Doctors slam Supreme Court ruling as 'reductive' and 'scientifically illiterate'

Doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) have branded the Supreme Court's gender ruling as "scientifically illiterate" ...

The Independent UK

Doctors weigh in on Supreme Court’s trans women ruling

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The Independent UK

Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’

The resident doctors’ wing of the BMA argued that a binary divide between sex and gender ‘has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender-diverse people’

The National (Scotland)

'No clear reason': BMA 'withdraws invite' for Gaza aid agency founder

The British Medical Association has been accused of cancelling a speaking invitation for the founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians with no clear…

Bangkok Post

National checks find 34 buildings badly damaged

Post-earthquake inspections confirmed that 34 buildings across Thailand were severely damaged and have since been declared off-limits.

Bangkok Post

Over 700 cases of Bangkok quake damage to be reviewed

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will inspect more than 700 cases of damage in the capital following a 7.7-magnitude earthquake in neighbouring Myanmar on Friday.

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting’s ‘high-stakes’ abolition of NHS England will cut 10,000 jobs

Changes proposed by health secretary predicted to save as much as £500m but could be distraction for ministers

Bangkok Post

Seven BMA officials arrested over fake repairs to buses

Seven officials at the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) have been arrested for alleged corruption in fake repairs made to five buses at a cost of 2.8 million baht.

Evening Standard

BMA urges Government to expand specialty training posts for NHS medics

The British Medical Association claims 4.7 applications were made for every post last year, up from a ratio of 1.9 in 2019.

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