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After Six Months In No 10, Fixing The NHS Is Still Rishi Sunak’s Biggest Test
Health
After Six Months In No 10, Fixing The NHS Is Still Rishi Sunak’s Biggest Test
Rishi Sunak has completed six months as Prime Minister, but despite having returned his chaotic party to a state of relative stability and clawed back some points from Labour in the polls, whether he can fix the crisis in the NHS remains his biggest barrier to staying in office.
Senior Tory Tells Rishi Sunak To Take “Leap Of Faith” And Offer Doctors New Pay Deal
Health
Senior Tory Tells Rishi Sunak To Take “Leap Of Faith” And Offer Doctors New Pay Deal
Tory chair of the health select committee Steve Brine wants Rishi Sunak to take “a leap of faith” and offer a new pay deal to doctors, to end the long-running industrial action before further strikes are announced.

Top Stories: Nurses Hold 'Intensive' Strike Talks With Government, Tory Brexiteers Digging In, Supermarkets Ration Veg
Health
Top Stories: Nurses Hold "Intensive" Strike Talks With Government, Tory Brexiteers Digging In, Supermarkets Ration Veg
Ministers are set to meet with members of the Royal College of Nursing to hammer out a potential deal which could bring major NHS strike action to an end.
Top Stories: NHS Strikes 'Deadlock', Tory MPs Attack Truss Comeback
Health
Top Stories: NHS Strikes "Deadlock", Tory MPs Attack Truss Comeback
The largest-ever NHS strikes are taking place on Monday in a continued "deadlock" over pay, with nurses and ambulance workers across multiple regions in England walking out.
Who Is Going On Strike And When In February?
Health
Who Is Going On Strike And When In February?
Mass walkouts are set to take place across multiple sectors in February affecting the NHS, schools, rail services and more.
NHS Nurses “Angry” At Health Secretary’s Claim That Pay Rises Could Cut Patient Care
Health
NHS Nurses “Angry” At Health Secretary’s Claim That Pay Rises Could Cut Patient Care
Striking NHS nurses have expressed their frustration at health secretary Steve Barclay’s suggestion that pay rises are “unaffordable” and that repurposing existing budgets to facilitate them would take money away from vital patient care.
Anti-Strikes Bill In Parliament, Government Talks Fail To Avert Strikes, Conservative MP Suspended Over Lobbying
Health
Anti-Strikes Bill In Parliament, Government Talks Fail To Avert Strikes, Conservative MP Suspended Over Lobbying
A controversial bill to ensure further minimum levels of public sector services during strike action will have its first reading in Parliament today.
Government In Talks With Unions, NHS Crisis Plans, Teachers Are Leaving Jobs
Health
Government In Talks With Unions, NHS Crisis Plans, Teachers Are Leaving Jobs
Leaders from a range of unions are meeting cabinet ministers today to discuss their positions ahead of further planned strikes across the health, education, and transport sectors.
Having worked as an NHS nurse for 25 years, I know how soul destroying the job can be
Health
By Paulette Hamilton MP
Having worked as an NHS nurse for 25 years, I know how soul destroying the job can be
Working in the nursing profession for over 25 years, I know first-hand nurses are on the front line of all care given.
Rishi Sunak's 'Unworkable' Anti-Strike Laws Face 'Quagmire' Of Legal Challenges And Lords Delays
Economy
Rishi Sunak's "Unworkable" Anti-Strike Laws Face "Quagmire" Of Legal Challenges And Lords Delays
The government has confirmed plans for controversial anti-strike laws despite warnings from peers that plans "simply won't work" due to the likelihood of significant delays in Parliament and legal challenges from unions.
Protecting the right to strike has never been so important
Home affairs
By Baroness Chakrabarti
Protecting the right to strike has never been so important
“The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life...we take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike...”