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Rochelle Travers and Rachelle Abbott

The Leader podcast: Strike stories from the picket line

Four out of five Britons are worried about the NHS’s ability to provide safe care for patients during strikes by nurses and ambulance workers, a new poll has found (Peter Byrne/PA)

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The Royal College of Nursing say they’ve been left with no alternative but to hold the biggest industrial action in NHS history.

Linda Tovey, a critical care nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, London, reveals what led her to strike and her worries over the quality of care patients will receive.

In part two, Katie Strick, commissioning editor and senior feature writer at the Evening Standard, meets postal workers Vinny and Hannah on the picket line to hear about their concerns for the future of Royal Mail.

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