Tag: junior doctors
8 months ago
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Doctors’ strikes to cancel care for seriously ill and see volunteers deployed to keep A&E calm

NHS Providers said the unprecedented industrial action is likely to cause the worst patient disruption hospitals have...

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9 months ago
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This is when consultants and junior doctors will have joint strikes in September and October

Consultants had already announced plans to walk out for 48 hours from 19 September, and will be joined by their junio...

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9 months ago
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How much doctors are paid and what the Government has offered striking medics, explained

The British Medical Association says real terms pay for junior doctors has fallen by more than 26% since 2008 and is ...

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9 months ago
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One million NHS procedures risk being postponed due to strikes, health leader warns

Sir Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, said months of industrial action have cost the health service a...

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9 months ago
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NHS trusts urge people to 'use services wisely' as junior doctors strike for 5th time

Junior doctors are staging their fifth strike, meaning services have seen more than 450 hours without a third of the ...

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10 months ago
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NHS waiting list likely to pass 9 million unless strikes end 'immediately', senior medic warns

Trusts are on the verge of drawing up major incident plans due to rising waiting lists which the Prime Minister has b...

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10 months ago
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NHS strikes leave 'terrifying' winter ahead with service facing worst crisis yet, senior medics

Trust leaders fear further strike action combined with growing waiting lists and a flu spike will leave hospitals str...

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10 months ago
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Government departments told to make £1bn cuts to fund pay rise for teachers, doctors and police

Education unions say they will accept offer of a 6.5% pay rise but junior doctors vow to continue striking

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10 months ago
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'I've been in pain so long': Patients' frustration grows as NHS strikes cancel more operations

Junior doctors vow to carry on striking calling Rishi Sunak's 'final' 6 per cent offer a real terms pay cut and less ...

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10 months ago
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NHS salary scale explained and why junior doctors are striking

The British Medical Association, which represents around 45,000 junior doctors in England, argue that their pay has f...

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10 months ago
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NHS waiting lists in England hit record 7.47 million

Tim Mitchell, vice-president and president-elect of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said the climb in waiti...

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10 months ago
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Full list of junior doctors' strikes and what they mean for NHS care

Around 200,000 appointments are expected to be postponed over the next five days as tens of thousands of British Medi...

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10 months ago
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NHS chiefs warn hospitals already 'stretched to limit' as five-day junior doctor strike begins

Industrial action in April cost hospitals around £100m alone, bosses say, with tens of thousands of staff walking out...

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11 months ago
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The gaping holes in Rishi Sunak's radical plan to fix NHS staff crisis, according to doctors

Up to 9 in 10 medicals students are told to go home early from their placement shift due to the relentless pressure m...

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11 months ago
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NHS is in 'spiral of decline' as health service reaches 75, say senior medics

Despite having a new long-term workforce plan, urgent solutions are needed to give the millions of patients facing lo...

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11 months ago
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Yousaf to make last-ditch 'biggest ever' pay offer to junior doctors in bid to avoid strike

He claimed the new deal would put 'thousands of pounds' into the pockets of junior doctors, who are preparing to stri...

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about 1 year ago
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Hundreds more of us will quit if junior doctors' strikes continue, GPs warn

Waiting list of 7.2 million people in England set to grow even further following months of industrial action with GPs...

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about 1 year ago
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BMA accuses Somerset hospital of misleading union and revokes permission for medics to work

Union accuses Weston General of misleading it and NHS England over staffing numbers after granting the hospital an ex...

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about 1 year ago
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GPs, pharmacists and matrons drafted in to prevent junior doctors strike chaos in hospitals

The 96-hour strike without emergency cover will cause 'unparalleled levels of disruption' with around 250,000 appoint...

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about 1 year ago
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Junior doctors may strike for a week in May as further action 'inevitable' after Easter walkout

One senior consultant said escalating action would be "the only option open" if the Government and British Medical As...

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about 1 year ago
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Senior medics warn that patients face 10 days of chaos from junior doctors' strike

The former president of the Society for Acute Medicine said hospitals face a "really challenging" 10 consecutive days...

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about 1 year ago
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Junior doctors in England set to enter pay talks with Government

The British Medical Association said it hoped to "set something up in the near future" regarding talks with the Healt...

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about 1 year ago
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Hospitals will take weeks to recover from junior doctors' 72-hour walkout, NHS leaders warn

Some A&E departments experienced their busiest Monday of the year so far this week as tens of thousands of junior doc...

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about 1 year ago
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Junior doctors' strike likely to be the worst yet as children's cancer care and A&E disrupted

Health leaders warn hospitals will struggle to deal with further strikes as BMA members begin three days of industria...

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about 1 year ago
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Junior doctors can 'make more serving coffee than saving patients', BMA warns ahead of walkout

On the eve of industrial action junior doctors' leaders have launched an advertising campaign saying they could earn ...

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about 1 year ago
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NHS staffing problems now worse than the MRSA superbug, warns top doctor

As his new book is published reflecting on almost 30 years on the NHS frontline, Dr Jim Down tells i how the health s...

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about 1 year ago
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Junior doctors' pay talks with Health Secretary end in 'disappointment' over lack of offer

The BMA said it was left disappointed after the Health Secretary told them he did not have a mandate to discuss any n...

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about 1 year ago
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Junior doctors set to stage 72-hour walkout without emergency cover in March

Up to 47,600 medics will go on strike next month after an overwhelming majority supported industrial action over the ...

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