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Striking picture of doctors' pay revealed

By Liz Wells 23 July 2025

The long-term trend in doctors’ pay reveals a ‘striking picture’ of sustained periods of real-terms increases followed by similarly sustained periods of real-terms decreases in pay, new research re...

ICB becomes demonstrator for Widening Access programme

By Liz Wells 23 July 2025

Humber and North Yorkshire ICB has been selected as a demonstrator site for a major national NHS recruitment drive.

Public support for resident doctors falls as trusts brace themselves for strikes

By Liz Wells 23 July 2025

Public support for the imminent resident doctors' strikes is declining, new research reveals.

BREAKING NEWS: Resident doctors strike to go ahead as Streeting fails to 'make significant offer'

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

Resident doctors in England have confirmed they will be going ahead with industrial action this week, after determining health secretary Wes Streeting’s letter to the BMA's Resident Doctors Committ...

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals selects new chair

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Mahmud Nawaz as its new chair.

App helps families stay connected to premature babies

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

A new video messaging app has launched at King’s College Hospital and Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) to keep families in touch with their babies on neonatal units.

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NHS professionals to be trained on ME and chronic fatigue syndrome

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

NHS healthcare professionals in England are to receive new training to be better able to support patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and ME.

BMA warns NHS England that its strike plans risk patient safety

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

The BMA is warning NHS England that its change in approach to planning for this week’s resident doctors strikes will ‘risk patient safety’ for those seeking routine and emergency treatment.

Airedale Hospital workers to vote on strike action

By Liz Wells 22 July 2025

Airedale Hospital workers will begin a strike vote on Friday (25 July).

Charity urges Government to act on Hughes Report recommendations

By Liz Wells 21 July 2025

Charity Epilepsy Research Institute has written to Baroness Merron, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, urging the Government to act on the recommendations made by th...