Exclusive: Spending freeze imposed after strikes blow £300m hole in budget

By Nick Kituno and Henry Anderson2025-09-05T16:01:00

The government has ordered a spending freeze and told the NHS to absorb the £300m cost of the most recent resident doctors’ strikes from existing budgets, HSJ has learned.

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