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Emergency service workers are set to strike on December 21 2022, to demand better pay. The strike action is happening as the UK is witnessing the worst ambulance handover delays on record. Thousands of patients are having to wait outside AEs up and down the country in the back of…

The growing hospitalisations spell disaster for an already ‘creaking’ NHS, experts warn

After first day of strike, NHS leaders and former pay review boss implore PM and Steve Barclay to review offer

Patients said delays had made their illness worse, with 20% currently waiting for an appointment, test or treatment

NHS Employers boss says strikes next month likely to be for longer and to affect more trusts if dispute continues

Figure rises from 5,501 people on 7 December to 6,720 on 14 December, according to NHS data

A harrowing Guardian report depicts the struggle to deliver care, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Exclusive: Government-commissioned paper pinpoints budget squeeze as key reason for service’s loss of capacity

The trust has also been placed in 'the equivalent of special measures', and is now under the highest level of NHS England intervention