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Sky News Politics17 Apr 2026

<a href='https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-wes-streeting-doctors-strike-labour-keir-starmer-iran-war-12593360?postid=11535317#liveblog-body'>Whitehall mandarins incredulous over sacking of Foreign Office boss</a>

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Sky News Politics15 Apr 2026

NHS 'failing women and girls' and has 'appalling culture of medical misogyny', health secretary says

The health secretary has accused the NHS of having an "appalling culture of medical misogyny" as he set out a range of measures in a renewed Women's Health Strategy.

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Sky News Politics14 Apr 2026

<a href='https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-wes-streeting-doctors-strike-labour-keir-starmer-iran-war-12593360?postid=11522682#liveblog-body' target='_blank'>Warning key fish stocks 'teetering on the brink of collapse' - amid analysis on overfishing</a>

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Sky News Politics1 Apr 2026

Resident doctors fail to meet Starmer's deadline for deal

Resident doctors in England are primed to go on strike next week after a deadline set by the prime minister arrived without a deal agreed.

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Sky News Politics31 Mar 2026

How did we get to another NHS doctors' strike?

Doctors' strikes have become commonplace over the past few years as they walk out over NHS pay, hours and jobs.

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Sky News Politics30 Mar 2026

PM issues 48-hour ultimatum over 'reckless' doctors' strikes

Sir Keir Starmer has threatened to withdraw an offer of thousands more NHS jobs should resident doctors go ahead with strike action next week.

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Sky News Politics25 Mar 2026

Resident doctors in England to strike for six days after Easter bank holiday

Resident doctors - formerly known as junior doctors - in England are to strike for six days in the ongoing row over pay and jobs, the British Medical Association announced.

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Sky News Politics25 Mar 2026

Wes Streeting threatens to break up failing NHS trusts

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has threatened to break up failing NHS trusts in response to the latest health service satisfaction survey.

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Sky News Politics24 Mar 2026

First five NHS trusts to be placed in special recovery programme named

Five NHS trusts with "deep-rooted challenges" will be the first to be placed in a new recovery programme, the health secretary has announced.

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Sky News Politics4 Mar 2026

First minister 'confident' of hospital safety despite dirty water revelations

Scotland's first minister has said he is "confident" Glasgow's scandal-hit super-hospital is safe, despite Sky News revealing mould and dirty water had forced the partial closure of a cancer ward.

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