Hospital doctors in England on Wednesday begin their longest consecutive strike in the seven-decade history of Britain’s National Health Service. Junior doctors — those below consultant level — will walk out for six days in a major escalation of their long-running pay dispute with the United ...

‘The immediate concern has to be with patients – more than a million and counting – whose care or treatment has been delayed’ - NHS Providers The number of NHS appointments cancelled because of strikes in England is expected to surpass one million, with health bosses warning of the “distress” ...

By Nicholas Cecil Three quarters of people in Britain say that it is becoming a worse place to live, a poll revealed on Monday amid long NHS waiting lists, rising taxes, strikes and high inflation deepening the cost-of-living crisis. The Ipsos survey for the Standard made grisly reading ...

By Sami Quadri Tony Blair has said that the NHS is “not serving its purpose” and called for more private sector involvement. Millions of people are languishing on NHS waiting lists after a wave of strikes by workers in recent months. More than 600,000 cancelled hospital appointments have been ...

By Ella Pickover, PA Health Correspondent record number of staff left their jobs the NHS in England last year, reports suggest. Some 169,512 staff left their NHS jobs across hospitals, community health services and other health organisations in 2022, compared to 149,678 the previous year, ...

mediaofficer The NHS recruitment and training body, Health Education England (HEE), confirmed funding for a new Medical Doctor Degree Apprenticeship in January. The apprenticeships are also part of the NHS England Long Term Workforce Plan, which will see the biggest expansion of training in ...

Simon Rushton The UK government has unveiled a long-awaited plan to recruit record numbers of doctors and nurses to its National Health Service. The £2.4 billion blueprint could result in an extra 300,000 workers – 60,000 doctors, 170,000 nurses and 71,000 health staff – employed in the NHS in ...

A third of the 4,500 junior doctors in England surveyed said they were planning to work in another country in the next year. by Jack Peat Thousands of junior doctors are planning to walk away from their NHS jobs, a new poll suggests. A survey revealed that 40 per cent of junior doctors plan to ...

Tens of thousands of members of the RCN in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are holding the latest one-day stoppage after walking out last Thursday demanding an inflation-busting pay rise. UK nurses have staged a second unprecedented strike amid an increasingly acrimonious fight with the ...