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The doctors’ union has rejected NHS figures showing that less than a third of resident doctors joined strike action in England last week and 93% of…

From Jeremy Hunt and Alan Johnson to Andy Burnham and Ken Clarke, politics is littered with ambitious former health secretaries who did not make it into…

As five days of strike action by resident doctors come to an end, the BMA has written asking me to return to the negotiating table. I’ve…

The doctors union “will lose a war with this government”, Wes Streeting has said, adding that the NHS is ready to tough out a prolonged series…

NHS bosses and the British Medical Association are accusing each other of endangering patients during the ongoing resident doctors’ strike.Their war of words centres on “derogations”,…

Wes Streeting thought he had struck a deal with resident doctors to stop a five-day strike in England, only for the British Medical Association to then…

Thousands fewer resident doctors are thought to have joined picket lines on Friday during the first day of a five-day strike compared with last year’s mass…

Resident doctors in England have begun strike action after the British Medical Association and government failed to reach an agreement over pay restoration.Up to 50,000 people…

Good morning. Resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, working in the NHS have begun their five-day strike.At the heart of this dispute is the government’s…

A strike by resident doctors “enormously undermines the entire trade union movement”, Wes Streeting has argued, urging them not to join industrial action on Friday morning.In…