The British royal family stepped out in style to celebrate King Charles III’s official Scotland coronation ceremony.
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Thousands of doctors walking out - and threatening to do so every month until next year. This is just one more source of pressure on the crisis-hit NHS.
And without pay increasing, claim doctors taking industrial action, 'it's difficult to see that changing'. The NHS suffered among one of its worst winters on record earlier this year.
More people than ever were asking for help, in worse condition than ever. It overwhelmed many hospitals and will again, warn medics, as 'every year it gets worse and, now, those pressure remain all-year round'.
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Paramedics, nurses, physiotherapists, hospital staff have all walked out over the course of the last year.
But while many among that list were encouraged to accept a pay deal offered by the government, leading to a fragile suspension of strikes, it is doctors who are continuing industrial action.
Yesterday (June 17), chants rang out across the city centre as doctors from across the north west gathered outside the Manchester Central Convention Centre to rally behind their campaign - not for a pay rise, they claim, but for a ‘pay restoration’. The doctors chose the day to challenge Health Secretary, Steve Barclary, who was expected to be inside the centre giving a speech to NHS leaders at a convention running at the same time.
Junior doctors, in their thousands, have now staged multiple rounds of strike action. Talks between the British Medical Association (BMA), the union representing hospital doctors, and the government are understood to be fraught and frosty.
The government calls the BMA’s demand for ‘pay restoration’ - a hike of 35 per cent - ‘unreasonable’, offering a five per cent rise instead.
The British royal family stepped out in style to celebrate King Charles III’s official Scotland coronation ceremony.
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