Health Secretary confident strike vote nurses will not get a higher pay offer
Nurses across the UK are currently casting their votes on whether to take industrial action over pay and conditions.
Nurses across the UK are currently casting their votes on whether to take industrial action over pay and conditions.
The Health Secretary told Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members “let’s not patronise each other” as they discussed an ongoing pay dispute.
All midwives and maternity support workers employed in the NHS who are members of the RCM are eligible to vote.
The RCN is asking all of its UK members if they are prepared to walk out over pay.
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Pat Cullen has had a long career in health and nursing.
The union’s general secretary Pat Cullen said nurses will still provide critical care if a walkout goes ahead.
The Royal College of Nursing is launching its first UK-wide ballot on industrial action.
GUERNSEY’S nursing union is disregarding a 20% uplift in pay over the last four years in rejecting the latest States offer, the deputy leading Guernsey’s pay negotiations has said.
Charity bosses are among those invited.
GUERNSEY’S nurses have said they are prepared to take industrial action, as pay talks have stalled.
The head of the health service in England said the monarch had ‘dedicated her life to public service’.
New NHS figures show a rise in delayed discharges from hospital.
The figure is as high as one in eight in London.
Unions have described it as a ‘summer of solidarity’.
Officials said the decision follows declining case numbers.