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TODAY junior doctors launch four days of strike action throughout the NHS in England over the demand for a 35% pay increase to make...

A FIFTH round of strike action by junior doctors in England begins this morning, from 7am today until 7am on Tuesday 15 August. There will...

THE TORIES are planning to knife the NHS through a massive expansion of the private health sector. The Labour turncoats are meanwhile critical of them...

THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has warned that the Tory government is setting the NHS up for the its worst ‘winter crisis’ ever. Last Friday,...

LAST THURSDAY the government made a ‘final offer’ to the NHS consultants, a petty offer that they rejected out of hand. BMA Consultants Committee...

‘NONE of us want to strike, but we’ve been forced to by the government,’ Dr Kevin O’Kane, Chair, BMA London Regional Council, told a...

STRIKING BMA consultants, picketing outside UCLH hospital yesterday on day two of their action, were adamant that the strike was not just about pay. It...

THE government made the final offer and said “no more talks”. We are united, stronger together. We cannot and will not back down,’ Consultants...

YESTERDAY, NHS consultants went out on a two-day strike, the first in nearly 50 years, over their demand for an increase in pay to...

NHS consultants in England are on 48-hour strike today and tomorrow, with the BMA hosting a rally at its London headquarters in Tavistock Square,...

AS JUNIOR doctors ended their latest five-day strike action yesterday morning, BMA Junior Doctors Committee spokesman Dr Tal Ellenbogen accused Tory PM Rishi Sunak...

CONSULTANTS in England, who go on strike on Thursday and Friday, will do the same next month, said the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday...

RESPONDING to yesterday’s recommendation from the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) and the government’s acceptance of that recommendation, the BMA says...

OVER 30 striking junior doctors picketing UCH Hospital in London’s Euston Road yesterday were joined by local residents and patients, to the continual sound...

HUNDREDS of people have taken to the streets in central Paris against continuing police brutality and racial profiling across France, despite a ‘shocking’ ban...

‘WE WILL strike for as long as it takes,’ British Medical Association (BMA) Chair of Council Professor Philip Banfield told the doctors’ union’s cheering...

TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay hit out against the NHS’s junior doctors again yesterday ahead of their five-day strike later this month, and on...

JUNIOR DOCTORS in England will strike for five consecutive days in July, in what is thought to be the longest single period of industrial...

AMID a heatwave in the heart of London, hundreds of junior doctors converged at Tavistock Square for a march from BMA House to Parliament...

THERE were powerful picket lines outside hospitals around the country yesterday as junior doctors began a 72-hour strike against Tory attacks on the NHS...

AS MORE than 60,000 junior doctors begin three days of strike action at 7am this morning, the British Medical Association (BMA) warns that two-thirds...

MORE than 60,000 junior doctor members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are going on strike for three days this week against massive 31.7%...

HOSPITAL  consultants in England will go on strike on 20th and 21st July if their ballot, which closes at the end of June, is...

HEALTH Secretary Steve Barclay did the rounds of the TV studios on Sunday to declare an all-out war on doctors, nurses and patients, as...

FIFTY GP surgeries in the north of Ireland are threatened with closure, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned yesterday. Sixteen surgeries have handed contracts back...

TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay provocatively declared yesterday that there will be absolutely no pay increase for nurses or doctors above the 5% that...

THE BMA says the dismissal of a consultant from Hampshire for whistleblowing is unacceptable and further highlights the need for cultural and legal reform...

YESTERDAY, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) opened the ballot for strike action by nurses in response to the Tory pay offer of a...

JUNIOR doctors in England will hold a three-day strike from 7am on Wednesday 14 June to 7am on Saturday 17 June, after rejecting a...

PRIVATE health trade body the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has welcomed the cross-party consensus on the key role of the independent sector in...

The annual conference of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Brighton this week is taking place at a time when the entire NHS...

IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the...

GPs HAVE voted overwhelmingly to ballot for industrial action if ‘disastrous’ changes to their working contract, which they say threaten patient safety, are not...

DR Mary Bousted, the joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), made a last minute plea to the Tories on Sunday for...

THE CLAIM that last week 196,000 hospital appointments were cancelled has been used by the Tories and their supporters in the media to put...

UNISON has reaffirmed its commitment to the One Team campaign for the health service, in the face of the government’s ‘divisive’ actions during the...

IN THE midst of the historic four days of strike action by junior doctors this week, the leadership of the BMA have resorted to...

THERE was a very lively picket line at UCL Hospital yesterday in London’s Euston Road, with over 40 junior doctors waving placards, chanting and...

ON THE FIRST day of the four-day strike by 47,600 junior doctors they held a mass rally in central London. From 2pm onwards Trafalgar Square...

ANGRY NHS workers on strike outside Barnsley hospital in South Yorkshire spoke to News Line yesterday. Ellen Newberry, deputy chair of Junior Doctors Committee (BMA),...

THE DAILY Telegraph yesterday called to ‘Combat strikes with contingency plans’ after observing that ‘What has been billed as a Winter of Discontent in...

News Line spoke to two of the junior doctors on the picket line outside Cheltenham Royal Infirmary in Gloucestershire. Dr Chad Harker, BMA rep, said:...

THERE was massive support for the hundreds of picket lines outside hospitals all around the country yesterday morning as 47,600 junior doctors began their...

TODAY is the first of four days of strike action by junior doctors throughout the health service in England, in what is the biggest...

JUNIOR Doctors start their continuous four-day 96-hour strike at 06.59 today, Tuesday 11 April, and end it at 06.59 on Saturday 15 April. Backed by...