The Latest Breaking News from Steve Barclay

The Mancunian Way: The push for Martyn's Law

PM calls Figen Murray about progress on legislation PLUS Why we’re striking AND The school helping families in unfit housing

Manchester Evening News · Dec 19, 2022

Ambulance unions to meet Health Secretary for 11th-hour talks ahead of strikes

With Steve Barclay refusing to discuss pay, it is highly likely the discussions will not avert disruption.

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2022

The only course left for Sunak’s friendless government is to settle these strikes now

The Tories have even lost the support of their cheerleaders in the rightwing press, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2022

NHS bosses warn of 'extensive disruption' ahead of ambulance and nurses' strikes

Unite boss Sharon Graham said "the unions are not going to blink first"

Liverpool Echo · Dec 19, 2022

Top Tory boasts he could earn £400k as he defends not paying NHS workers more

Simon Clarke, who earns more than £84,000 as an MP, boasted his salary would be much higher in the private sector while arguing that the Government does 'not get the credit' it deserves on NHS pay

Daily Mirror · Dec 19, 2022

‘You’re doing terrible damage’: Steve Barclay confronted by mother of sick daughter over state of NHS

Health secretary grilled over lack of resources for ‘worked to the bone’ staff

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2022

Mother berates Steve Barclay for working health workers ‘to the bone’

A mother, whose daughter has a ‘life-threatening condition’, has challenged Health Secretary Steve Barclay over the way health workers are “being worked to the bone” in an exchange caught on camera at a London hospital.

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2022

Mum of poorly girl, 3, confronts Health Secretary at bedside over overworked NHS staff

Sarah Pinnington-Auld, whose three-year-old daughter Lucy has cystic fibrosis, told Steve Barclay staff are 'worked to the bone' and 'the damage you’re doing to families like myself is terrible'

Daily Mirror · Dec 19, 2022

Fears about 999 responses grow as ambulance strike looms

Crews are still expected to cover life-threatening incidents, but it is not clear whether they will cover all emergency conditions

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2022

Nurses strike 'could last six months' warns health leader

Chief executive of NHS Providers urged the Government and unions to come to an agreement on pay

Wales Online · Dec 19, 2022