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

Up to 100,000 nurses to strike in December with threat to escalate action

Nurses, NHS doctors and healthcare professionals protesting in London in July 2022. They called for a pay rise to match inflation and said they would take industrial action if the government did not respond to their demands.
Nurses, NHS doctors and healthcare professionals protesting in London in July 2022. They called for a pay rise to match inflation and said they would take industrial action if the government did not respond to their demands. Photograph: Hesther Ng/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

Nurses will begin a series of strikes at dozens of hospitals in December – and will escalate their industrial action if ministers keep refusing to negotiate over pay.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) announced on Tuesday that up to 100,000 nurses will stay off work at many, but not all, of the hospitals and other NHS bodies where members have voted to stop work.

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