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Crucial cancer surgeries axed during doctors’ strike as ‘BMA demands extortionate rates’ for medics to work

The Independent understands the BMA demanded that consultants who were asked to step in to cover strikes be paid thousands of pounds to cover a single night shift

The Independent UK

Resident doctors refuse to rule out further strikes

NHS officials have said that cancelled bookings will be rescheduled within two weeks.

The Independent UK

The right wants to kill off the NHS. Striking doctors are playing into their hands

The BMA’s demand for pay restoration is a slap in the face for the health secretary who gave them a 22% rise – and it’s testing the public’s sympathy, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

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NHS chiefs and BMA in row over patient safety during doctors’ strike

NHS England and union in war of words over striking doctors being asked to deal with emergency situations

The Guardian - UK

Resident doctors’ focus on pay is doing untold damage to the NHS

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

The Guardian - UK

Hospitals make record number of requests for doctors to work during strikes

BMA has said patient safety risks occurred at some hospitals during the weekend of strike action

The Independent UK

Wes Streeting ‘thought he had struck deal to halt strike by doctors’

BMA chiefs overruled their negotiators because pay demands were not met, sources say

The Guardian - UK

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Tories would ban doctors’ strikes, Badenoch says

The Tory leader said that her party would introduce primary legislation to block medics from taking widespread industrial action.

Evening Standard

Starmer urged to drop key workers’ rights pledge to prevent ‘people dying’ from doctors’ strike

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has made an offer to work with the government to take on the ‘militant’ British Medical Association (BMA)

The Independent UK

Physician associates union takes Government to court over planned role changes

It follows findings by a Government-ordered report that PAs have been used as substitutes for doctors despite having significantly less training.

The Independent UK

NHS patients told to brace for strikes up to Christmas

Sir Jim Mackey, chief executive of NHS England, warns that it will take a ‘huge effort’ to keep hospital waiting times down during a prolonged period of disruption

The Independent UK

NHS: Strike-hit appointments to be rebooked in two weeks but will impact others

Professor Meghana Pandit, NHS England’s co-national medical director said local trusts maintained services with ‘minimal disruption’.

Evening Standard

Fewer resident doctors thought to have gone on strike than in last year’s NHS stoppage

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

The Guardian - UK

‘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

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The Independent UK

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

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

Evening Standard

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

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

The Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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

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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 Independent UK

Thousands of resident doctors begin five-day walkout

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The Guardian - 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

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

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