Resident doctors’ strikes risk derailing Labour’s NHS recovery plan

With waiting lists high and pay talks deadlocked, fresh round of industrial action could undermine Starmer’s health pledgesPatients left in pain and discomfort. Thousands of appointments and operations cancelled. Much of the reaction to the decision of resident (formerly junior) doctors in England to stage their third six-month series of strikes over pay in just 16 months has focused on the disruption to NHS services.But their stoppages also threaten to pose serious problems – political, economic and reputational – for the government. For Keir Starmer, Wes Streeting and inescapably Rachel Reeves, too, this is a situation replete with risk but without an obvious solution. Continue reading...

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