The health secretary Wes Streeting has demanded to meet the wider membership of the BMA Resident Doctors Committee (RDC) in a bid to end the ongoing dispute over jobs and pay.As the latest six day walkout by resident doctors in England came to a close on 13 April, Streeting said he wanted to meet the “organ grinders”—in effect circumventing the BMA’s negotiating team—to try to break the impasse in negotiations.In a letter to the RDC on 12 April Streeting denied the BMA’s claim that the government had “moved the goalposts,” stating “that is categorically untrue.”1This came after the RDC went ahead with the latest strike after accusing the government of making late changes to the pay offer by stretching it over three years rather than two.2In the letter, Streeting called for the full RDC to meet him to discuss the deal.Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg,3 Streeting said,...
BMJ published a clinical update in Research Highlights on 13 Apr 2026.
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