junior doctors

Rachel Clarke, a one-time TV journalist, decided to retrain as a doctor. Now 44, she tells Chloe Hamilton about her anguish about going on strike last year and what she thinks of Jeremy Hunt “Every junior doctor knows another junior doctor who has either taken their own life or has come very...

A junior doctor’s gripping account of working on the NHS’s frontline is likely to cause discomfort for Theresa May and the health secretary Jeremy Hunt. Dr Rachel Clarke’s book chronicles how rota gaps, exhausted staff and risks to patient safety make a mockery of ministers’ claims to be...

Dr Nadia Masood’s public involvement in the junior doctors’ dispute began in a layby somewhere in north-east London on 11 January. “I was driving to Essex to see my mum, who was in hospital with sepsis after having chemotherapy for breast cancer. I was listening to LBC and James O’Brien was...

Junior doctors in the UK fear they are missing out on crucial training because of increasing workloads, a report by the General Medical Council suggests. In its survey of more than 50,000 junior doctors, 43% said their daytime workload was "heavy" or "very heavy". The GMC says time allocated...

Junior doctors are waiting to hear whether England's High Court will agree to stop the government imposing a new contract. The group Justice for Health says it mounted the legal challenge because the contract is "unsafe and unsustainable". The Department of Health says the case is without...

The BMA has said that it will look into other forms of opposition to the imposition of the junior doctors contract after calling off the series of five-day strikes planned over the next few months. The Junior Doctors Committee agreed to cancel the strikes following its meeting on Saturday, ’due...

Junior doctors in England have suspended a series of five-day strikes over the next three months, following concerns over patient safety. Walkouts in October, November and December, in protest against a new contract, had been planned. The junior doctors' committee of the British Medical...

Jeremy Hunt acted illegally and beyond his powers by deciding to impose a new contract on NHS junior doctors, the high court has been told in a legal challenge to the health secretary’s handling of the year-long dispute. The court on Monday began a two-day judicial review of the legal challenge...

Stephen Hawking, Robert Winston and a number of senior doctors are urging Theresa May to hold an inquiry into Jeremy Hunt’s claim that 11,000 patient deaths a year are caused by a lack of medics on duty in hospitals at weekends. In a letter to the Guardian they claim the health secretary has...

The British Medical Association has called off the junior doctors' strike due to take place in England next week amid concerns about patient safety. The BMA said it was not backing down in the fight over a new contract. It said strikes in October, November and December would go ahead unless...

The junior doctor at the heart of an escalating row over NHS strike action has warned that the imposition of a new contract could lead to a collapse in morale and an exodus of staff. Ellen McCourt, chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, said that the health...

Hospitals in England will begin to make contingency plans for the five consecutive days of strikes this month by junior doctors later. The all-out strikes will take place from 08:00 BST to 17:00 BST from 12 to 16 September with more dates to follow. The Royal Colleges, representing the medical...

There will be full withdrawal of labour, including in emergency departments, between 8am and 5pm on days in question. The British Medical Association has announced a new wave of strikes by junior doctors in England this month – the first since its members rejected the government’s final offer...

Junior doctors' leaders are set to propose a series of five-day, all-out strikes every month for the rest of the year. The BMA council will meet today to vote on the plans proposed by junior doctors committee chairwoman Dr Ellen McCourt. The plans were leaked to the Daily Mail on Tuesday ahead...

A junior doctor killed herself because of the despair she felt at her future in medicine, her family said. Rose Polge, 25, died in February after walking out mid-shift from Torbay Hospital in south Devon. She went into the sea in Torquay and her body was discovered two months later off the...

Jeremy Hunt has said he will impose a new contract on the 54,000 junior doctors in the NHS in England, after they rejected it in a ballot. The health secretary said the phased introduction of the contract would go ahead as planned from October in order to move on from the uncertainty created by...

Ministers are paving the way to impose a contract on junior doctors in England after the profession rejected the deal that had been agreed between union negotiators and the government. British Medical Association members voted 58% to 42% against the deal. BMA leaders had urged members to...

Junior doctors and medical students in England have voted to reject the contract that has been offered to them by the government. British Medical Association members voted 58% to 42% against accepting the deal. BMA leaders had urged members to accept the terms, which were announced in May...

THE number of junior doctors applying to train in Scotland has dramatically increased, amid claims the SNP government enjoys better relations with the medical profession than Tory ministers. There was a 27 per cent rise in the number of foundation-level doctors sending applications to train in...

A majority of junior doctors could vote down the contract offer agreed between BMA and the Government, an online poll has suggested. The poll of almost 900 respondents on a closed Facebook group for junior doctors shows that 56.5% intend to vote 'no' when the vote opens later this month. Just...