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Junior doctors on £14-an-hour as poor pay revealed and Tories refuse to start talks The Daily Mirror says Junior doctors are being paid as little as £14 an hour to carry out vital operations, a campaign reveals. As medics today begin a four-day strike, The British Medical Association exposes the shocking truth about wages. It said: “Is this a fair price to provide patients with high-quality healthcare?” In a poll, most back the strikes. But the Tories still refuse to hold pay talks. The government has been accused of providing high quality health care on the cheap by doctors whose…

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Tory ‘neglect’ blamed for 3.6m abandoned calls to NHS 111 in England The Guardian says Patients contacting NHS 111 in England are having to wait so long for medical help that they are abandoning millions of calls, with 3.6m ditched in the past 12 months, official figures reveal. The national helpline service is supposed to make it quicker and easier for patients to get the right advice or treatment they need, either for their physical or mental health. It is billed as being open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. However, analysis by the House of Commons Library,…

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