The Latest Breaking News from the British Medical Association

Letters: Robert Behrman fears resident doctors are leading the NHS towards a change in its entire ethos, and Prof David Cameron has cancelled his BMA subscription over their strike this week, but Marianne Gemmeke has sympathy for their action

Picket-line turnout on first day of industrial action believed to be lower with hope of less disruption to NHS services

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

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

Resident doctors from the British Medical Association are due to walk out at 7am on Friday in a row over pay

Resident doctors are demanding a significant pay rise amid claims of long-term wage erosion, but critics argue their current salaries are fair and further increases would be unaffordable for the NHS

Medical Colleges have warned the British Medical Association that it is risking patient safety by advising doctors to withhold strike plans from employers

The British Medical Association announced resident doctors in England would walk out for five days from 7am on July 25.

The Government and the British Medical Association are to meet to try and avoid strike action.

The Government and the British Medical Association are set to meet this week.

Labour health secretary set to meet doctors’ union as new poll shows collapse in public support