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Junior doctors and supporters sit down in a silent protest outside Bristol Royal Infirmary on the second day of all-out strike action in April 2016.
TORY ministers are “standing on the precipice of a historic mistake” by failing to stop national NHS strikes, the country’s biggest doctors’ union warned today.
Downing Street is “letting patients down” by refusing to reopen talks on another below-inflation pay offer for the current financial year, British Medical Association (BMA) chairman Professor Philip Banfield said.
The result of the union’s national junior doctors’ strike ballot is expected tomorrow. If successful, the vote could soon see another 45,000 workers join nurses and ambulance staff downing tools across most of England and Wales.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
With 121,000 vacancies and 44.8% of staff feeling unwell from work stress, the NHS 10-year plan will not succeed unless the government takes immediate action to retain existing staff, writes ANNETTE MANSELL-GREEN
