The Latest Breaking News from Phil Banfield

The union has called for the recruitment of less qualified staff to be paused.

Junior doctors and consultants will launch a joint three-day strike this week in their pay dispute.

Dr Phil Banfield, chairman of council at the British Medical Association, says relations between profession and government are at lowest ebb in thirty years

It comes as doctors prepare to stage strikes later this month.

The British Medical Association chair has warned that the health service is ‘shrinking’, despite increasing need for it.

Doctors’ union claims its members are labelled ‘troublemakers’ for speaking up about their concerns

Union hopes members will give ‘positive’ response to proposal of three-day strike

"The current situation in the NHS is intolerable and unsustainable"

Medics warned Tory cuts have left the NHS on its knees, amid claims up to 500 people a week die because of delays in emergency care