36 h. ago Wes Streeting warns junior doctors that going on strike for six months over pay would 'choke' NHS recovery

The Health Secretary squared up to the British Medical Association as a new poll suggested support for industrial action by medicals is falling.

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3 d. ago Militant resident doctors launch strike ballot over NHS pay and call for walkouts... firing the starting gun on a Labour 'summer of discontent'

The British Medical Association is urging members to support up to six months of walkouts, with fears other public sector workers could follow.

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3 d. ago Resident doctors fire the starting gun on a Labour summer of discontent by launching a strike ballot over NHS pay

The British Medical Association is urging members to support up to six months of walkouts, with fears nurses, teachers and other public sector workers could follow.

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8 d. ago Teachers and doctors to get 4% pay rises but strike threat looms

The Government has confirmed NHS staff and teachers in England will get above-inflation pay hikes but the British Medical Association is threatening strike action, while the National Education Union warned it could register a dispute

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8 d. ago Doctors threaten strike action after 4% pay rise announcement

The British Medical Association, the union representing doctors, has said the pay rise does not go far enough in restoring historical pay freezes.

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8 d. ago Teachers and doctors threaten strike action after 4% pay rise announcement

The British Medical Association, the union representing doctors, has said the pay rise does not go far enough in restoring historical pay freezes.

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1 week ago GP jobs ‘crisis’ leaves qualified doctors considering unemployment benefits

Leading doctors have called for special funding to enable more GPs to be employed in England.

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1 week ago GPs 'should not have to report every case of underage sexual activity' says British Medical Association

The British Medical Association claims this would break patient confidentiality and would risk losing the trust of minors who seek help for their sexual health

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3 w. ago Doctor ballot for strike action is ‘premature’ and ‘unnecessary’, says Streeting

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said doctors have now got a Government that is sympathetic to the pressures they are facing.

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4 w. ago Doctors have tense meeting with Wes Streeting and vote to go on strike again over pay

The British Medical Association is balloting resident doctors in England over possible strike action after leaving a meeting today with Health Secretary Wes Streeting

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4 w. ago Doctors have tense meeting with Wes Streeting and call vote to go on strike again over pay

The British Medical Association is balloting resident doctors in England over possible strike action after leaving a meeting today with Health Secretary Wes Streeting

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4 w. ago Resident doctors in England to be balloted on strike action over pay

The ballot will open on May 27 and closes on July 7.

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4 w. ago Junior doctors poised to strike after Government 'ignored' demands for pay bumps

Resident doctors will ballot for strike action over 'ignored' demands for pay, the British Medical Association has announced.

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4 w. ago Resident doctors in England ballot for strike action over pay

The ballot will open on May 27 and closes on July 7.

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4 w. ago Red Pockets by Alice Mah review – finding hope amid the climate crisis

A professor’s quest to make sense of her eco-anxiety takes her from her ancestral village in China to Cop 26 and beyondEco-anxiety is not an official medical diagnosis, but everyone knows what it means. The American Psychological Association defines it as “the chronic fear of environmental cataclysm that comes from observing the seemingly irrevocable impact of climate change and the associated concern for one’s future and that of next generations”. Fear of the future, an ache for the past, the present awash with disquiet: into this turmoil Alice Mah’s new book appears like a little red boat, keeping hope afloat against all odds.Mah is a professor of urban and environmental studies at the University of Glasgow as well as an activist passionately concerned with pollution, ecological breakdown and climate justice. Her previous books, Petrochemical Planet and Plastic Unlimited, catalogued the catastrophic impacts of the petrochemical industry on the natural and human world. In Red ...

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