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Junior doctors continue five-day strike
Junior doctors join the picket outside St Thomas' Hospital in London as amid a fresh walkout in a dispute over pay with the Government. Interview with co-chair of the BMA's Junior Doctors Committee, Dr Robert Laurenson.
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Start of latest junior doctors’ strikes ‘a profoundly demoralising moment’
The start of another junior doctors’ strike is “a profoundly demoralising moment” for the health service, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation has said. Matthew Taylor urged the British Medical Association and the Government to...
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Train drivers to stage fresh strikes over pay
Train drivers are to stage a series of fresh strikes and an overtime ban in their long-running dispute over pay, causing more travel chaos for passengers.
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Reaction after meeting of the Independent Horizon Compensation Advisory Board
Kevan Jones Labour MP for North Durham and Professor Chris Hodges, Chair of Independent Advisory Board, speak after a meeting of the independent Horizon Compensation Advisory Board at the Department for Business and Trade.
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Momentous day for Britain - chairman of the independent Horizon compensation advisory board
It is a “momentous day for Britain”, the chair of the independent Horizon compensation advisory board said after the Government’s announcement to bring in a law to exonerate Post Office branch managers convicted in the scandal. Speaking...
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Doctors should enter talks with ‘reasonable expectations’ – Government
A 35% pay rise for junior doctors in England is “not affordable, even over several years”, the Government has said as the bitter row over pay rumbles on. The British Medical Association (BMA) has asked for the Government to “fully...
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UK strikes – who will be walking out this month?
The UK continues to face a barrage of industrial action by key workers in a series of pay disputes. Here are the details of strikes taking place this month?
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Strikes by London Underground workers suspended
Strikes by London Underground workers which would have crippled Tube services this week have been suspended following progress in talks over a pay dispute. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) were due to walk out from...
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Tube strikes go ahead after last-ditch pay talks break down
Strikes by London Underground workers have gone ahead from Friday evening after last-ditch talks failed to resolve a pay dispute. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) will walk out throughout the next week, causing...
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Sunak says he is working towards an election in the second half of the year
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Mansfield in Nottinghamshire where he answers questions about NHS strikes, the BMA, the Post Office scandal and the next General Election.
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Junior doctors strike in England continues
Footage of St Thomas' Hospital in London as junior doctors strike for a second day. Medics will walk out from 7am on January 3 to 7am on January 9.
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The NHS ‘cannot be switched on and off on whim’ during strikes – Atkins
The NHS “doesn’t just belong” to the British Medical Association’s (BMA) junior doctors’ committee, the Health Secretary has said as medics continue their record-breaking, walkout. Victoria Atkins said that the health service “cannot be...
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Junior doctors' strike – key facts as NHS faces 'unprecedented' industrial action
Junior doctors in England walked out on Wednesday, as they started six days of strike action – the longest strike in NHS history. Here are the key facts as the NHS faces the "unprecedented" industrial action.
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Sir Ed Davey says Government is 'asleep at the wheel' as junior doctors strike in England
The leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey said the Government was "asleep at the wheel" as junior doctors started a six-day strike on Wednesday – the longest in the history of the NHS.
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NHS facing difficult start to the year as six-day strike looms, boss warns
The NHS may have to deal with “one of the most difficult starts to the year” it has ever faced, a medical leader has warned.
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Travel chaos continues at St Pancras
Passengers at St Pancras International station, London, as Christmas getaway chaos is expected to continue as the backlog from the suspension of cross-Channel rail services begins to clear and the weather remains unsettled.
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Queues continue to grow at St Pancras as Christmas getaway disruption continues
Passengers at St Pancras International station, London, as Christmas getaway chaos is expected to continue as the backlog from the suspension of cross-Channel rail services begins to clear and the weather remains unsettled.
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Christmas travel disruption as motorways close and rail travellers face delays
Christmas getaway disruption is continuing with long queues for cross-Channel journeys, motorway closures and train cancellations. The Port of Dover in Kent said it is taking about 90 minutes to process cars with pre-booked tickets.
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Politics daily briefing: December 21
All the latest political developments, as the junior doctors’ strike enters a second day.
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Junior doctors strike in Nottingham
Junior doctors attend a picket line outside Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham as three days of major industrial action begin. Interviews with surgical trainee Tal Ellenbogen and Melissa Ryan, paediatric trainee.
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NHS braces for junior doctors' strike
The NHS is bracing for a difficult few days as almost half of the medical workforce in England are set to go on strike during one of the busiest periods of the year. Junior doctors are to take to picket lines from 7am on December 20 to...
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Archive footage of junior doctors as fresh strikes begin
Archive footage as junior doctors are to take to picket lines from 7am on December 20 to 7am on December 23 in a major escalation in the bitter dispute over pay. Footage in order: Footage of the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital in...
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Interviews with junior doctors on picket line amid fresh strikes
Interviews with Dr Sumi Manirajan, deputy co-chairwoman of the BMA’s junior doctors’ committee, and Dr Rob Laurenson, BMA junior doctor committee co-chair, as junior doctors in England have gone out on strike.
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Strikes have come ‘at the worst possible time’ – NHS chiefs
Patients have been warned there will be “significant disruption” to NHS services as junior doctors in England stage a strike at one of the busiest periods of the year. Doctors in training – who make up around half of the medical...