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

Kemi Badenoch warns of 'summer of chaos' and offers Keir Starmer Conservative support in 'facing down' the doctors' BMA trade union in the 'national interest'

A top NHS medic has issued a stark warning to striking doctors that tomorrow’s five-day walkout will harm patients.

NHS strikes threatened to spread yesterday as paramedics in the GMB union voted to reject their annual pay offer. It came as a five-day walkout by hospital resident doctors began over pay, led by

NHS bosses are putting patients at risk of harm in the upcoming doctors' strike, the British Medical Association says. The union believes NHS England's plan to limit the number of routine treatments being cancelled will stretch senior doctors covering for striking resident doctors too thinly.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has said NHS England ’s plan to carry on with business as usual during the resident doctors ’ strikes poses a risk to patients. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

NHS patients in the East of England are being urged to continue coming forward for care during upcoming resident doctors’ strikes