Wes Streeting improves offer to resident doctors in England in attempt to stop strikes

BMA puts health secretary’s offer, which includes pledge to double number of extra training places, to resident doctorsWes Streeting has made an improved offer to end the long-running dispute with resident doctors before their strike next week that threatens to bring chaos to the NHS as it battles a flu surge.The health secretary has pledged to double the number of extra places that early career doctors in England can apply for in order to train in the area of medicine they have chosen to specialise in. Continue reading...