Around 100,000 nursing staff are set to go on strike next month in a long-running dispute over pay.
Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will take part in industrial action on December 15 and 20 after voting in favour in a ballot. Nurses and other nursing staff will take action at half of the locations in England where the legal mandate was reached for strikes, every NHS employer except one in Wales and throughout Northern Ireland.
The number of NHS employers affected by action will increase in January unless negotiations are held, the RCN said. A separate pay offer has been made in Scotland.
