Daily Mail published this video item, entitled “Nurses announce December strikes as pay dispute worsens” – below is their description.
The Royal College of Nursing announced the first in a series of walk outs over pay will take place on Thursday 15 and Tuesday 20 December. Nurses have promised to protect emergency and urgent care during the 12-hour strikes. However, the strikes will still affect around half of hospitals, potentially postponing 30,000 operations and hundreds of thousands of outpatient appointments.
It comes as NHS bosses warned the health service faces ‘its most challenging winter ever’ with the ‘tripledemic’ of flu, Covid and record demand on urgent and emergency services. Health Secretary Steve Barclay said that he ‘deeply regrets’ the walkouts but added that the demands – a 19 per cent pay rise – are simply ‘not affordable’.
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