The Latest Breaking News from Wes Streeting

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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