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The Royal College of Surgeons voted to fall in line with the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Nursing

NHS England issued a statement asking people to check on elderly friends and relatives and warning people with conditions such as asthma are at increased risk

Patients face huge disruption as medics in the British Medical Association begin a 72-hour walkout in their bitter dispute with the Government over pay

The British Medical Association polled 2,000 doctors on the eve of their three day strike from 7am following a decade of below inflation pay deals

As victims’ families reveal their pain, the probe into the handling of the health crisis hears that the impact of closing down the country was not fully considered

If the strikes go ahead, consultants will provide Christmas Day cover, meaning they will continue to provide all emergency services but routine services will need to be paused

The co-chairmen of the British Medical Association's junior doctors' committee, Rob Laurenson and Vivek Trivedi, said they would stage walkouts until ministers back down

In March, 8,549 doctor vacancies in secondary care were reported in England, as data shows 13,400 UK-trained doctors practised abroad in 2020, where they get higher pay or a better work-life balance

The Government has implemented the 5% average wage rise for NHS workers for 2023/24 - which was agreed with a majority of health trade unions despite the pay hike being below inflation

Last year 185,664 days were lost to stress out of just over a million sick days in all, 8% more than 2021. That is equal to a daily average of almost 3,000 medics calling in ill

Ambulance staff will be on strike at the same time as nurses in parts of the country, as some speak out about a health service stretched to breaking point

Keir Starmer accused the Tories of presiding over a "broken" system and said his team would focus on tackling long waits

Nearly 4,000 medics and Armed Forces veterans have been invited to the King's Coronation - Professor Nola Ishmael is furious at the double standards the invitation exposes

Around 350,000 appointments are expected to be cancelled during the lastest strike, as the BMA continues to campaign for pay restoration

This Prime Minister won't make Britain rich in the same way someone driving a Bentley doesn't pick up hitchhikers, says Fleet Street Fox. We're heading for a very storrmy summer

Expert is worried the NHS will struggle to cope during the “hangover period” from the strikes next week, and says emergency departments may treat only patients arriving by ambulance

Around 60,000 junior doctors walked out yesterday and will not return until 7am at Saturday, making it the most disruptive strike in NHS history

Around 50,000 doctors are staging pickets outside hospitals across England in a strike over pay, and have told how they are using food banks and borrowing money to pay rent

George Dovey, a 28-year-old doctor picketing outside St Thomas' Hospital this morning, said working conditions "have got harder" and he "keeps getting less resources"

Doctors are mounting picket lines outside hospitals from 7am today until Saturday morning in the longest stoppage of the wave of unrest, which has seen other NHS workers take action since last year

One of the biggest strikes by medics starts today, with warnings of cancelled appointments and ­operations, as staff battle for better pay

Responsibility for the four-day strike starting in England today rests with this penny-pinching, incompetent and unnecessarily confrontational Government

Floundering Health Secretary Steve Barclay is under pressure to resolve the dispute, with the British Medical Association (BMA) saying a 'credible offer' would end plans for a strike starting on Tuesday

Steve Barclay should be doing everything he can to avoid this calamity but so far he has refused to resume negotiations with the British Medical Association

NHS Providers, which represents hospital chief executives, said it will struggle to get enough senior doctors to provide cover straight after a Bank Holiday and during the Easter school break