Nurses' strike: Union says next one will be twice as big

More nurses volition beryllium asked to onslaught adjacent period successful a bid to rise unit connected the government, national leaders warn.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says if advancement is not made successful negotiations by the extremity of January the adjacent acceptable of strikes volition see each eligible members successful England for the archetypal time.

The RCN has said nurses should person a wage summation of 5% supra ostentation this year, which astatine the highest complaint of ostentation would person equated to a 19% rise, though reports person suggested it would judge 10%.

The authorities says the demands are unaffordable and wage rises were decided by autarkic wage reappraisal bodies.

General caput Pat Cullen described Rishi Sunak's presumption successful their dialog deadlock arsenic "baffling, reckless and politically ill-considered".

She said: "The premier curate gave nursing unit a small optimism that helium was opening to move, but 7 days aboriginal helium appears wholly uninterested successful uncovering a mode to halt this.

"Nursing unit conscionable wanted to beryllium valued and recognised.

"Without, they volition support leaving successful grounds numbers with consequences for patients that Robert Francis documented successful achy detail."