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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
James Tapper

NHS is ‘over the precipice’, warns nurses’ leader as strike vote looms

Pat Cullen, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, is ready to take on the government.
Pat Cullen, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, is ready to take on the government. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer

Nurses will vote to go on a national strike for the first time in their history because the NHS has “gone over the precipice” and may not survive, the leader of the UK’s largest nursing union has told the Observer.

Pat Cullen, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said there is anger among nurses, who feel that ministers do not believe they are important.

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