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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Liam Thorp

Everywhere in Liverpool City Region that nurses are set to go on strike

NHS nurses across the country have voted in favour of a national strike in a row over pay.

The Royal College of Nursing has balloted its 300,000 NHS membership for the first time in its 106-year history and huge numbers have voted for strike action.

The national strike will be the first of its kind as the RCN fights to improve pay and conditions and against staff shortages that are making life harder for staff and patients in hospitals all over the country.

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The terms of the ballot meant that each hospital had to achieve a 50% turnout in the vote for strike action to be held. The rules mean the strikes will take place on a trust by trust basis, but the RCN is likely to try and co-ordinate the action for the biggest impact.

The strikes are expected to take place later this year and possibly over Christmas. The action comes after nurses across the UK were offered a £1,400 pay rise by the government - which works out as a real-terms cut amid high inflation.

Nurses at hospital trusts up and down the country have voted to strike, including many in our region and surrounding areas. These include:

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Found Trust

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Found Trust

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Found Trust

Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Speaking about the strike action, RCN general secretary Pat Cullen said: "Anger has become action - our members are saying enough is enough." She said nurses had been getting a "raw deal" on pay for years, adding: " "Ministers must look in the mirror and ask how long they will put nursing staff through this."

Ms Cullen said striking members would ensure patients did not come to harm by continuing to provide urgent and emergency care during the strikes. This means services such as intensive care will be fully staffed, while other services, such as cancer care, are also likely to be given a level of protection.

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