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‘Exactly what a union should be doing’: doctors in Manchester defend strike action

BMA members on Manchester Royal Infirmary picket line had hoped Labour government would end pay dispute

The Guardian - UK

Reeves will have to ditch key party manifesto pledge, IMF warns

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The Independent UK

Reeves will have to raise taxes, charge for the NHS or ditch pensions triple lock, warns IMF

The International Monetary Fund praised Rachel Reeves’s overall strategy but warned that her lack of fiscal headroom will leave her with hard choices

The Independent UK

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Striking doctors will not hold this country to ransom, defiant Streeting tells BMA

Thousands of resident doctors are on strike until Wednesday at 7am

The Independent UK

Streeting: We are doing everything we can to minimise patient harm during strike

Thousands of resident doctors are on strike until Wednesday at 7am.

Evening Standard

Striking doctors tell of ‘poor pay’ and difficult working conditions

Resident medics are manning picket lines at the start of five-day walkout.

Evening Standard

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Streeting warns doctors must feel ‘pain’ of strikes to prevent further action

The health secretary has warned industrial action could spread to other public sectors

The Independent UK

Voices: ‘They work long, unsocial hours – for what?’ Frustration over doctor pay boils over as strikes begin

YOUR VIEWS: Our community is split: some say resident doctors deserve far more, others believe their pay is already fair, and the strikes go too far

The Independent UK

Streeting says ‘we won’t let BMA hold country to ransom’ as resident doctors start five days of strikes – as it happened

Health secretary says government doing all it can to ‘minimise risk and disruption’ as BMA says pay has fallen more in real terms since 2008 than rest of population

The Guardian - UK

Resident doctors in England go on strike over pay restoration

Up to 50,000 doctors stage five days of action from 7am on 25 July to 7am on 30 July after pay talks break down

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of resident doctors begin five-day walkout

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The Independent UK

Friday briefing: Can the NHS and Labour survive another strike by resident doctors?

In today’s newsletter: After years of industrial unrest, the pay dispute between NHS resident doctors and the government has reignited, threatening to undermine Labour’s central health pledge

The Guardian - UK

The BMA is selling a fantasy. Strikes will harm patients and erode trust

Consultants were supportive of previous strikes, but these feel futile. The goodwill has gone and we fear for patient safety

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The Independent UK

Doctor strikes begin despite Starmer’s last-ditch plea to avert five-day walkout

Health secretary Wes Streeting says BMA has left ‘damage at the door of the NHS’

The Independent UK

Starmer issues last-ditch appeal as thousands of doctors strike

Members of the public have been urged to come forward for NHS care during the walkout, and are being asked to attend appointments as usual.

Evening Standard

Resident doctors strike: Medics demanding 29% pay rise begin walkout despite last-ditch plea from Keir Starmer

Resident doctors took to picket lines across England on Friday in pay dispute that is expected to cause serious disruption to patient care

The Independent UK

Four in 10 feel Muslim immigrants have negative impact on UK, polling suggests

An imam said he believes fear among people ‘stems from a lack of understanding of Islam’.

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The Independent UK

Weight-loss jabs could help obese people control asthma, study suggests

A number of types of the drug are recommended to help tackle obesity on the NHS.

The Independent UK

The five-day doctors’ strike will only do harm

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The medical staff demanding a 29 per cent pay increase should ask themselves if the misery that their industrial action will cause is worth it. They are gambling with the future of the health service they profess to love – they should go back to work

The Guardian - UK

Resident doctors’ strike undermines union movement, says Wes Streeting

Exclusive: Health secretary urges medics not to join BMA industrial action on Friday

The Guardian - UK

This unnecessary doctors’ strike will hurt patients, the NHS and doctors themselves. Pull back: don’t do it

The BMA is refusing to engage with the government. It is rushing into industrial action that will undermine the entire trade union movement, says health secretary Wes Streeting

Evening Standard

Streeting to resident doctors: ‘I deeply regret position we find ourselves in’

It comes as the medics prepare to walk out for a five-day strike on Friday morning

The Independent UK

‘Imbalance’ of women doctors harming NHS, retired surgeon says

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Evening Standard

Doctors’ strike to cause major delays at south-west London hospitals

The week-long strike action comes as the NHS faces one of its busiest summers in recent years

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