Former health secretary urges Steve Barclay to ‘pick up a telephone’ to junior doctors
The 96-hour junior doctors’ strike has entered its second day with the British Medical Association (BMA) and the government still far away from reaching a settlement. As many as 47,600 early-career medics are thought to be taking action as the BMA demands “pay restoration” to 2008. The union claims that below inflation salary increases since […]
Streeting says he does not support junior doctor strike and urges compromise
The shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has said he does not support the strike action scheduled to be taken by junior doctors in England next month. The British Medical Association has announced a 96-hour walkout between April 11-15 in their fight to get a 35% pay rise in England. The stoppage will start just after […]
Shaping the healthcare agenda of the new government
There is a full in-tray facing Therese Coffey, the new Health and Social Care Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister. As the new government takes shape, we are told that the priorities of the new Secretary of State will be ‘ABCD’: ambulances, backlogs, care, doctors and dentists. Anyone involved in the delivery of healthcare knows, there […]
