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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Jane Kirby

HISTORICAL FACTS: Doctors holding patients to ransom by going on strike streeting | History Defined

Doctors are “inflicting pain and misery on patients” and holding them to ransom by going on strike, the Health Secretary has said.

Wes Streeting told LBC radio the five-day resident doctors’ strike in England is “going to set us back” as he accused British Medical Association (BMA) “activists” of “damaging” NHS recovery.

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