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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Nurses across UK to vote in first ever RCN strike ballot over pay

nurses at work in a ward
The Royal College of Nursing says that its members should get a rise of 5% above the rate of inflation. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

Hundreds of thousands of nurses across the UK are to be balloted about going on strike in a move that risks disrupting the NHS this winter.

For the first time in its 106-year history the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is balloting 300,000 of its members about strike action and recommending that they vote in favour.

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