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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Wes Streeting improves offer to resident doctors in England in attempt to stop strikes

People stand with placards reading 'doctors need jobs now' and 'patients need doctors. Doctors need jobs'
Resident doctors picket outside the Royal Liverpool university hospital in Liverpool on 14 November. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

Wes Streeting has made an improved offer to end the long-running dispute with resident doctors before their strike next week that threatens to bring chaos to the NHS as it battles a flu surge.

The health secretary has pledged to double the number of extra places that early career doctors in England can apply for in order to train in the area of medicine they have chosen to specialise in.

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