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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Thomas

Wes Streeting compares doctors’ union to the cartel as he warns strikes will cost NHS hundreds of millions of pounds

The doctors' strikes will cost the NHS £240 million, the health secretary has said, as he blasted the “cartel-like” union behind the walkout for causing “untold misery and disruption” to patients.

Wes Streeting told the NHS Providers’ conference in Manchester that the five-day resident doctors’ strike was “morally reprehensible” and would threaten the future of the NHS.

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