Al Mayadeen English

  • Ar
  • Es
  • x
Al Mayadeen English

Slogan

  • News
    • Politics
    • Economy
    • Sports
    • Arts&Culture
    • Health
    • Miscellaneous
    • Technology
    • Environment
  • Articles
    • Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Blog
    • Features
  • Videos
    • NewsFeed
    • Video Features
    • Explainers
    • TV
    • Digital Series
  • Infographs
  • In Pictures
  • • LIVE
News
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Sports
  • Arts&Culture
  • Health
  • Miscellaneous
  • Technology
  • Environment
Articles
  • Opinion
  • Analysis
  • Blog
  • Features
Videos
  • NewsFeed
  • Video Features
  • Explainers
  • TV
  • Digital Series
Infographs
In Pictures
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Europe
  • Latin America
  • MENA
  • Palestine
  • US & Canada
BREAKING
Sheikh Qassem: Our supporters make up more than half of Lebanon's population, and all of these people are united under the banner of protecting Lebanon, its Resistance, its people, and its integrity.
Sheikh Qassem: There will be no phased handing in of our arms. [The Israelis] must first enact the agreement before we start talking about a defensive strategy.
Sheikh Qassem: Be brave in the face of foreign pressures, and we will be by your side in this stance.
Sheikh Qassem: Stripping us of our arms is like stripping us of our very soul, and this will prompt us to show them our might.
Sheikh Qassem: We will not abandon our arms, for they gave us dignity; we will not abandon our arms, for they protect us against our enemy.
Sheikh Qassem: The US efforts we are seeing are aimed at sabotaging Lebanon and constitute a call for sedition.
Sheikh Qassem: If you truly want to establish sovereignty and work for Lebanon’s interests, then stop the aggression.
Sheikh Qassem: The United States, which is meddling in Lebanon, is not trustworthy but rather poses a danger to it.
Sheikh Qassem: The United States is preventing the weapons that protect the homeland.
Sheikh Qassem: The government’s latest decision [on the disarmament of the Resistance] is non-charter-based, and if the government continues down this path, it is not faithful to Lebanon’s sovereignty.

Senior doctors in England hold first walkout in decade

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: News Websites
  • 20 Jul 2023 18:54
3 Min Read

London NHS Trusts have warned that other clinical staff will be unable to substitute for consultants, the NHS's most senior clinicians.

  • x
  • Senior doctors in England hold first walkout in decade
    People demonstrate in Trafalgar Square supporting a NHS junior doctor strike on April 11, 2023. (AP)

Thousands of senior physicians in England have launched their first significant protest in a decade, rejecting the government's meager wage increase, causing even further disruptions to health services.

The walkout is the largest since 2021 and has caused thousands of appointments to be rescheduled. Only emergency treatment and just a little of regular labor, or referred to as Christmas Day cover, have been spared.

The British Medical Association (BMA) poll for the current strike received over 24,000 votes in June, with the great majority (20,741 or 86 percent) voting in favor.

The strike comes just two days after junior physicians finished a five-day protest over wages.

Read next: 250,000 operations postponed due to doctors' strike: NHS

Nick Hulme, head of the Ipswich and Colchester Hospitals confirmed that 50 percent of senior physicians are on strike, and as a result, they have ceased seeing most patients and will not be available to monitor younger doctors' work.

Related News

Experts condemn Israeli attacks on medical facilities as healthocide

Israeli rights groups accuse 'Israel' of committing genocide in Gaza

London NHS Trusts have warned that other clinical staff will be unable to substitute for consultants, the NHS's most senior clinicians.

Although the government has promised a 6% pay increase for consultants, the BMA has condemned the proposal as "derisory," pointing out that physicians' real-term take-home income has fallen by more than a third over the previous 14 years.

The government has enacted strike laws in an attempt to control industrial strikes in the country's critical industries, compelling employees to maintain a baseline level of service during the strike period or risk firing.

Experts are concerned that the UK is seeing a "sickness explosion" that is costing the economy nearly $19 billion annually.

According to a recent assessment by health professionals, Britain has "among the worst population health in Europe" as a result of obesity, excessive drinking, and significant health inequities.

Earlier this week, new research revealed that people in the UK have been compelled to extract their own teeth at home because they cannot access or afford an NHS dentist.

The Health and Social Care Committee's investigation of NHS dentistry recommended "urgent and fundamental reform," citing evidence of pain and misery that is “totally unacceptable in the 21st century." The paper quotes a YouGov survey of 2,104 persons taken in the United Kingdom in March 2023.

 

  • Britain
  • Healthcare
  • Health crisis
  • NHS
  • National Health Service

Most Read

Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, executive director of the defense division of the Israeli National Cyber Directorate, undated (Social media)

Israeli-born US prosecutor drops Israeli officer child sex crime

  • Politics
  • 19 Aug 2025
Almost instantly after the Helsinki Accords were signed, organisations sprouted to document purported violations, whose findings were fed to overseas embassies for international amplification. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Zeinab el-Hajj)

How ‘Human Rights’ became a Western weapon

  • Opinion
  • 23 Aug 2025
Israeli soldiers stand on the top of armoured vehicles parked on an area near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025 (AP)

Palestinian fighters target Israeli soldiers, vehicles in Gaza

  • Politics
  • 21 Aug 2025
Launch of a ballistic missile from Yemen toward the occupied Palestinian territories. (YAF military media)

Yemeni Forces announce firing hypersonic missile at Al-Lydd Airport

  • Politics
  • 22 Aug 2025

Coverage

All
The Ummah's Martyrs

Read Next

All
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Prime minister's office in al-Quds, Occupied Palestine, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025 (AP)
Politics

Netanyahu deliberately derailing truce with Gaza occupation: Hamas

Irish President Michael Higgins arrives to deliver his speech during a 42nd World Food Day celebration at FAO headquarters in Rome, on Oct. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Politics

Irish president renews call for UN military intervention in Gaza

US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the US Embassy in Aukar, northern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, July 21, 2025 (AP)
Politics

US envoy, Netanyahu discuss restraining attacks on Lebanon, withdrawal

Smoke billows following Israeli airstrikes in multiple areas in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025 (AP)
Politics

Ansar Allah vow sustained Gaza support despite Israeli strikes

Al Mayadeen English

Al Mayadeen is an Arab Independent Media Satellite Channel.

All Rights Reserved

  • x
  • Privacy Policy
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Authors
Android
iOS