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Resident doctors (England) industrial action, picket line Manchester University Hospital Trust, 14 November 2025

Resident doctors refuse to bow to health secretary’s ‘emotional blackmail’

Five-day strike begins as BMA demands action from the Government on pay and jobs

Pay & Contracts By Ben Ireland and Tim Tonkin
tameside hospital

Up in smoke?

For many doctors, it's painful to see the huge amount of waste and environmentally damaging activity in the health service. Seren Boyd speaks to some of those determined to make the NHS more sustainable

Health & Society By Seren Boyd
Frances O'Hagan serious

The contract that wasn't

GPs in Northern Ireland thought they had a deal. But money to cover indemnity costs was clawed back and funding remains woefully inadequate. Jennifer Trueland hears from GPs about the overwhelming support for collective action

Pay & Contracts Jennifer Trueland
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Sexism rife in medical schools, finds BMA

41 per cent of female students and 19 per cent of male students say they have experienced sexual harassment or sexual assault at medical school, reveals report

Life at Work By Tim Tonkin
Peter Holden 9F1A9942

In case of emergency

Peter Holden is a pioneer of immediate medical care who led a remarkable response to the terrorist attack in Tavistock Square on 7 July, 2005. Recently elected as BMA treasurer, he looks back over a remarkable career. By Peter Blackburn

Life at Work Peter Blackburn

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Health secretary describes strike as ‘morally reprehensible’

Wes Streeting says upcoming industrial action by resident doctors threatens the future of the NHS

Pay & Contracts Ben Ireland

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