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Evening Standard
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Sophie Wingate

Nurses strike: Health leaders tell union RCN told to do more to avoid patient harm during walkout

Nurses are due to go on strike on Thursday (Victoria Jones/PA) (Picture: PA Wire)

The nursing union must do more to “avoid patient harm” and “alleviate unnecessary distress” for dying patients when nurses go on strike later this week, health leaders have said.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) responded that it had agreed with chief nurses’ demands as “the safety of patients is everybody’s top concern”, hitting back at suggestions urgent cancer surgery is at risk as a “politically-motivated smear”.

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