Nearly one in three ambulance patients waiting at least 30 minutes for A&E handover
The numbers are higher than at any point last winter.
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Increasing number of nurses join UK register from ‘red list’ countries
The NMC said that the UK should not exacerbate nursing workforce shortages in other countries.
UK News|Nov 30, 2022
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Up to 100,000 nursing staff to walk out next month over pay
Action will take place at half the locations in England where the strike mandate was reached, nearly every NHS employer in Wales and throughout NI.
UK News|Nov 29, 2022
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‘My door is open but contingency plans must be made’ – Health Secretary
It comes amid reports that armed forces personnel could be drafted in to help the NHS during planned strike action.
UK News|Nov 28, 2022
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No ‘immediate plans’ for Army to plug gaps in NHS to ease sting of strikes
Health and defence officials are drawing up a contingency strategy as ambulance drivers and paramedics consider joining nurses on the picket lines.
UK News|Nov 28, 2022
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Army would step in to help NHS during winter of strikes under contingency plans
Health and defence officials are drawing up a strategy to tackle a possible wave of industrial action in the health service.
UK News|Nov 27, 2022
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Pay deals to match inflation are unaffordable, minister warns as strikes loom
Transport Secretary Mark Harper said there ‘simply isn’t the money’.
UK News|Nov 27, 2022
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Nurses tell Health Secretary it’s ‘pay negotiations or nothing’ to avert strikes
Steve Barclay urged the RCN to ‘come back to the table’ for talks about working conditions.
UK News|Nov 26, 2022
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Nurses to join series of strikes amid escalating industrial action
Industrial action by hundreds of thousands of workers is set to continue in the weeks running up to Christmas.
UK News|Nov 25, 2022
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Trust leaders aim to do all they can to ease disruption amid nurses’ strike
Exact details of which health services will be exempt from industrial action have not yet been set out.
UK News|Nov 25, 2022
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Details of NHS services exempt from nursing strike to be set out, says union
The Royal College of Nursing has announced its members will stage their first national strike on December 15 and 20.
UK News|Nov 25, 2022
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Nurses to strike next month over pay after talks offer is rejected
Members of the RCN will stage their first ever national walkout in worsening dispute.
UK News|Nov 25, 2022
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RCN criticises Health Secretary over negotiating stance in nursing dispute
Steve Barclay has a ‘lack of intention and inability’ to see the urgency of the situation, officials have said.
UK News|Nov 20, 2022
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Government has not given up on social care reform, insists Health Secretary
Steve Barclay said the pressures on the NHS were ‘predominantly’ to do with the pandemic.
UK News|Nov 20, 2022
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NHS on ‘crisis footing’ with likely rise in waiting lists despite extra funding
The Health Foundation believes while the increase to the NHS budget will provide “temporary respite”, services will face “difficult trade-offs”.
UK News|Nov 20, 2022
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