Health unions will stage a mass boycott of the NHS pay review body for this April while the current wage disputes from 2022/23 remain unresolved.
The 14 unions – representing more than one million ambulance staff, nurses, porters, healthcare assistants, physiotherapists and other NHS workers in England – have instead demanded direct pay talks with ministers.
The collapse of the pay review process marks a major escalation in tensions between unions and the Government and deal a blow to Tory hopes of ending strikes by shifting the focus onto next year's wage deals.
