The Latest Breaking News from Wes Streeting

Hospital chiefs warn next week’s strike in England will cause ‘chaos’ in NHS, as BMA pushes for 29% rise on top of last year’s 22% deal

The Health Secretary has insisted the Government will not budge on pay, but said discussions could focus on improving working lives of medics.

Details of how fairer pay can be provided for adult social care workers are due to be set out by Government.

Wes Streeting pledged to implement in full the findings of a review which said physician associates must not diagnose patients.

Physician associates have been used as substitutes for doctors, despite having significantly less training.

Exclusive: NSPCC calls on Wes Streeting to protect safeguarding roles to help keep children safe

COMMENT: The former health secretary Sajid Javid says we should charge £20 for GP appointments and replace the health service with a Dutch-style social insurance system – just as Wes Streeting warns the doctors that they are paving the way for Nigel Farage to do just that, writes John Rentoul

The British Medical Association announced resident doctors in England would walk out for five days from 7am on July 25.

Wes Streeting said his own experience of kidney cancer had made him focus on his health ‘but the nature of my job means my exercise has suffered’.

Declining health budgets and the spread of misinformation are putting children in the UK at risk of measles, as Rebecca Thomas reports

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