The Latest Breaking News from RCN

Strikes: Nurses’ union leader urges Government to ‘do the decent thing’

The RCN has asked for a 5% above-inflation pay rise but Health Secretary Steve Barclay has declined to discuss pay when meeting union officials.

The Independent UK · Dec 20, 2022

All the hospitals hit by nurses' strike TODAY in pay battle - picket lines map

The Royal College of Nursing is staging the second strike in its 106-year history - and has set a Friday ultimatum to talk about pay, otherwise it will announce more walkouts in January

Daily Mirror · Dec 20, 2022

Thousands of nurses stage second walkout in row over pay

It comes a day before ambulance staff are due to strike

Wales Online · Dec 20, 2022

Sunak urges unions to call off NHS strikes as report recommends using reservists not troops in crises

Warning armed forces ‘cannot be the first port of call whenever an emergency hits’

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2022

The only course left for Sunak’s friendless government is to settle these strikes now

The Tories have even lost the support of their cheerleaders in the rightwing press, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2022

All the strikes taking place this week across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

A number of strikes will be taking place across multiple sectors

Nottingham Post · Dec 19, 2022

Sunak ‘really disappointed’ by NHS strikes in run-up to Christmas

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak urged unions to consider whether the action was ‘really necessary’.

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2022

Still time for unions to ‘step back’ on strikes – Downing Street

Strikes by nurses and ambulance workers will mean an ‘incredibly challenging and disrupted’ week, unions said.

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2022

Top Tory boasts he could earn £400k as he defends not paying NHS workers more

Simon Clarke, who earns more than £84,000 as an MP, boasted his salary would be much higher in the private sector while arguing that the Government does 'not get the credit' it deserves on NHS pay

Daily Mirror · Dec 19, 2022

‘You’re doing terrible damage’: Steve Barclay confronted by mother of sick daughter over state of NHS

Health secretary grilled over lack of resources for ‘worked to the bone’ staff

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2022