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What's been happening?
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Just joining america oregon request a re-cap? Here's a reminder of the latest connected the onslaught today:
- Thousands of nurses successful England, Wales and Northern Ireland are striking implicit wage successful the biggest ever walkout by NHS nurses
- It is the archetypal time of 2 days of planned concern enactment - with nurses walking retired for 12 hours
- Routine services are being disrupted but unit volition supply "life preserving" and immoderate urgent care
- Addenbrookes Hospital successful Cambridge, a nationalist centre for crab and children's care, says it has had to cancel 2,000 appointments implicit the 2 days of onslaught enactment contiguous and adjacent Tuesday
- On the picket line, Pat Cullen, caput of the Royal College of Nursing, called it a "tragic time for nursing"
- She urged the authorities to bash the "decent thing" and code wage this twelvemonth and accused the wellness caput of being "disingenuous"
- The Royal College of Nursing wants a 19% wage emergence and says beneath ostentation increases are compromising attraction by making it hard to pull and clasp nurses
- Health Secretary Steve Barclay says the authorities is "hugely grateful" for the enactment nurses bash but insists 19% is "not affordable"
- He points retired nurses were awarded an other 3% wage emergence past twelvemonth erstwhile the remainder of the nationalist assemblage had a wage freeze
- The GMB national this greeting voted to cull an improved NHS wage woody from the Scottish government
- The adjacent walkout is owed to instrumentality spot connected 20 December
The strategy has conscionable breached us, says London nurse
A caregiver moving for an NHS spot successful London, whose members are not connected strike, has joined a picket enactment astatine a antithetic superior infirmary successful a amusement of solidarity.
Chelsea Barrett, who is 22, joined NHS unit extracurricular St Thomas' Hospital and told the PA quality bureau she wanted to amusement support.
She said: "When I'm talking to my friends we ever accidental we started nursing reasoning it was going to beryllium thing other completely. We would support our patients safe.
"Now that we've started the strategy has conscionable breached us, we've tried truthful hard to instrumentality attraction of our patients and we're being near with excessively galore patients, to a constituent wherever we don't consciousness similar they're harmless immoderate more.
"All the media are saying we privation other money, evidently we bash successful a sense, but it's not adjacent that, it's astir people's families, they are not safe."
Image caption: Firefighters belonging to the Fire Brigades Union articulation nurses connected a picket enactment extracurricular St Thomas' Hospital successful cardinal LondonCopyright: PA Media
Next circular of wage recommendations being looked at
Laura Foster
BBC Health correspondent
When it comes to deciding however overmuch of a wage emergence NHS unit should beryllium given, governments successful England, Wales and Northern Ireland crook to an autarkic radical for a recommendation.
That radical is the NHS Pay Review Body. It looks astatine accusation from governments, unions, the NHS and employers.
Its recommendations are presently being followed, but they don’t person to be. They’re conscionable guidelines.
A period ago, they were asked to commencement looking astatine what should hap erstwhile it comes to nurses’ wage during the adjacent fiscal year.
Today the NHSPRB confirmed they are preparing to present a proposal for wage that would commencement from April 2023.
Two 1000 appointments cancelled astatine Addenbrookes
Addenbrookes Hospital successful Cambridge is simply a nationalist centre for some crab and children's attraction and though the main caregiver has told america exigency attraction is going ahead.
The infirmary has had to cancel 2,000 appointments implicit the 2 days of onslaught enactment contiguous and adjacent Tuesday.
It has apologised to patients and says it volition get appointments rearranged arsenic soon arsenic possible, adding that it wants to enactment staff.
One caregiver told maine immoderate unit are having to usage nutrient banks. Another has had to walk a fewer nights successful a car arsenic she didn't person the wealth for her rent.
They're atrocious for the interaction connected patients but accidental information is being compromised connected a time to time ground arsenic excessively galore nurses are leaving.
Staff are besides striking astatine the adjacent intelligence wellness trust. Almost a 5th of intelligence wellness nursing roles successful the East of England are unfilled by imperishable members of staff.
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'My girl is demoralised earlier she's adjacent qualified'
Anthony’s girl volition suffice arsenic a caregiver this twelvemonth and she’s already feeling demoralised by the moving conditions.
"She was ever dressing up arsenic a caregiver erstwhile she was tiny and I’m precise arrogant that she ever wanted to beryllium a caregiver but there’s a large however now," Anthony tells BBC 5 Live.
“She’s experienced placements connected wards and seen first-hand how demoralised nurses are.”
Anthony says his girl was “really excited to going into training to beryllium a nurse,” but present “she’s travel location from placements crying”.
He says his girl is seeing nurses "who consciousness they are completely undervalued, who can’t header and who are suffering from accent due to the fact that the demands placed upon them are wholly unreasonable".
“If you can’t enthuse and get young radical excited astir a vocation successful nursing we have a cardinal occupation for the future," Anthony adds.
“I perfectly enactment the nurses going connected strikes today, we have got to bash something."
Strikes continuing done Christmas and New Year
David Brown
BBC News Visual Journalism Team
Today’s onslaught is the archetypal of 2 days of concern enactment by nurses successful England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Then time determination volition beryllium strikes by workers connected the railways and highways, arsenic good arsenic driving examiners, and among unit astatine Abellio buses.
Next week, ambulance unit and Border Force employees are expected to halt work, with different concern enactment continuing done Christmas and the caller year.
UPDATE 15:10: We're conscionable proceeding that tomorrow's planned onslaught by immoderate baggage handlers astatine Heathrow has been suspended pursuing last-minute talks. We'll update the graphic beneath shortly.
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Chief nursing serviceman who joined picket 'not speaking for government'
Image caption: Dame Ruth May joined nurses extracurricular St Thomas' Hospital successful LondonCopyright: PA Media
Downing Street says England's main nursing serviceman was not speaking for the authorities erstwhile she seemingly backed striking nurses connected the picket line.
Dame Ruth May joined nurses extracurricular St Thomas' Hospital successful London and aboriginal said she wants to spot a solution to the enactment implicit pay.
She said connected the picket enactment she supports striking nurses - and ministers indispensable scope an "urgent resolution" with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), according to the Times.
Asked astir her joining striking nurses, the premier minister's authoritative spokesperson said: "She doesn't enactment for the government. She's not a minister.
"Obviously she has her ain presumption arsenic main nurse. The authorities indispensable see what is simply a liable enactment successful the round."
Health Secretary Steve Barclay said: "I spoke to Ruth May up of contiguous and what she was precise wide connected is she wanted to enactment each nurses."
"And I deliberation arsenic main caregiver that's perfectly close that she is simply a hugely respected figurehead crossed the nursing profession."
Why aren’t nurses successful Scotland going connected strike?
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NHS unit successful Scotland voted to spell connected onslaught successful aboriginal November, but this was enactment connected clasp aft the Scottish authorities agreed to caller talks with wellness unions implicit pay.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has asked for a emergence of 5% supra ostentation - the complaint prices are rising - which is presently supra 14%.
The Scottish authorities initially offered NHS unit a level complaint of £2,205 per person, backdated to April, but the RCN rejected the woody - describing it arsenic a real-terms wage cut.
Unite, the GMB national and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy had besides backed onslaught action.
But an improved wage connection averaging 7.5% has since been made to wellness workers and is presently being considered by unions.
Unite and GMB some suspended enactment by ambulance unit and said that the connection volition beryllium enactment to members successful a ballot.
However, the GMB announced contiguous that its members had rejected the improved offer.
The RCN said that its committee members would see the details of the connection that "still does not conscionable our members' expectations".
The Scottish authorities said the caller woody was a "record precocious wage offer".
WATCH: Why are truthful galore radical connected strike?
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Video caption: An in-depth look astatine wherefore the UK is seeing truthful galore workers instrumentality onslaught action.Nurses are staging the biggest onslaught successful NHS past with calls for a 19% wage rise.
The Royal College of Nursing says beneath ostentation increases are compromising attraction by making it hard to pull and clasp nurses.
The latest variation of Make Sense of Your World takes an in-depth look astatine wherefore the UK is seeing nurses and truthful galore different workers connected picket lines.
'The NHS is chronically understaffed'
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Una Wilson is simply a probe caregiver and is connected the picket enactment astatine Belfast City Hospital.
She says recruitment and retention of healthcare unit is simply a large issue.
"Every twelvemonth we are operating with little and little unit and it means we cannot supply capable attraction for our patients."
Asked astir the ambiance astatine the onslaught she said: "The mood's been truly good, not conscionable from radical connected the picket enactment but the nationalist arsenic good are truly showing their support.
"At the extremity of the time the NHS is our nationalist treasure, the nationalist enactment it, the pople who enactment successful it emotion it, it conscionable is chronically understaffed and unit are burnt retired and underpaid.
"We person existent passionateness for the jobs that we bash and we privation to supply good, harmless care."
WATCH: We hugely worth the enactment nurses bash - wellness secretary
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Video caption: We hugely worth the enactment nurses bash - Steve BarclayThe Health Secretary Steve Barclay said the Royal College of Nursing's telephone for a 19% wage emergence is "not affordable".
He said the authorities is "hugely grateful" for the enactment that nurses bash and that's wherefore the authorities accepted the autarkic wage reappraisal body's recommendations successful afloat and awarded nurses with an other 3% wage emergence past twelvemonth erstwhile the remainder of the nationalist assemblage had a wage freeze.
'We support going for our patients'
Anna Crossley
Reporting from Liverpool
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"This has been the hardest determination I’ve ever made successful my vocation and it was the hardest decision for each of the nurses retired determination today," says Liverpool caregiver Daniella McLaughlan.
"This greeting I had a tense belly, I couldn’t person meal and I was inactive questioning whether this was the right thing to bash due to the fact that I didn’t travel into nursing to strike."
She says the occupation is "stressful, it’s emotional and it’s hard work", adding that she believes diligent attraction is being enactment astatine risk.
Staffing levels are mediocre due to the fact that nurses cannot spend to enactment successful the profession, Daniella explains.
"They’re not capable to wage the bills, truthful they’re leaving to get jobs wherever they tin afford to unrecorded properly.
"I emotion my occupation truthful much and I volition ne'er permission nursing, but immoderate radical person to permission due to the fact that it’s affecting their intelligence health, it affects their carnal wellness and it affects their household life. So determination mightiness travel a clip erstwhile I person to permission due to the fact that I have no different option.
"We cognize a batch of people are down us, we’ve got radical beeping their horns driving past… we’ve been fixed blistery drinks and food.
"The nationalist volition support going due to the fact that we keep going for our patients - we bash it mundane and nighttime - and the nationalist know that."
Is it close that nurses are utilizing nutrient banks? Health caput asked
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More present from Health Secretary Steve Barclay, who has been speaking to reports extracurricular a infirmary successful London.
He's asked if it is close that nurses are going to nutrient banks and claiming Universal Credit.
He doesn't reply the question directly, stating that the authorities has "an autarkic process" that looks astatine precocious taxes, cost-of-living pressures "and balances those with the needs of our NHS arsenic well".
He says that the authorities accepted the recommendations of an autarkic wage review.
"But we besides recognise the immense publication that we saw from nurses during the pandemic and that's wherefore past twelvemonth we made a peculiar lawsuit wherever nurses got an other 3% erstwhile others successful the nationalist assemblage did not," helium says.
Earlier Jerry Cope, erstwhile seat of the NHS Pay Review Body, said ministers should inquire the assemblage to reconsider their recommendations owed to the immense emergence successful inflation.
19% wage emergence unaffordable - Health Secretary
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Health Secretary Steve Barclay has spoken arsenic thousands of nurses successful England, Wales and Northern Ireland articulation picket lines.
He says that the authorities is "hugely grateful" to nurses but says the wage emergence being demanded is unaffordable.
"In the autumn connection we committed an other £6.6 cardinal of other backing to the NHS," Barclay tells reporters astatine Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
But the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) wants a 19% wage emergence and says beneath ostentation increases are compromising attraction by making it hard to pull and clasp nurses.
Asked astir the 19% wage rise, Barclay says: "We've got to equilibrium that against what is affordable to the wider economy."
"Asking for 19% wage rise, mode supra what astir viewers themselves are receiving, is not affordable fixed the galore different economical pressures that we face," helium says.
How overmuch bash nurses successful England earn?
Nurses successful England autumn into antithetic wage bands.
This illustration shows the minimum and maximum salaries successful 2022-23.
Those successful the starting wage band, gain anyplace from £27,055 to £32,934.
Experienced nurses are paid £33,706 to £40,588 and specializer nurses gain from £41,659 to £47,672.
A advisor caregiver tin expect to beryllium paid £48,526 to £54,619.
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What's been happening?
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Just joining america oregon request a re-cap? Here's the latest connected the strikes:
- Thousands of nurses successful England, Wales and Northern Ireland are connected the archetypal of 2 day-long strikes implicit pay
- Staff volition supply 'life preserving' and immoderate urgent care, but regular services are apt to beryllium disrupted successful the biggest ever walkout by NHS nurses
- Pat Cullen, caput of the Royal College of Nursing, called it a "tragic time for nursing"
- She called connected the authorities to bash the "decent thing" and code wage this twelvemonth and accused the wellness caput of being "disingenuous"
- Health curate Maria Caulfield said she empathises with nurses but said the 19% wage summation being demanded by the nurses' national was "an unrealistic ask"
- The GMB national this greeting voted to cull an improved NHS wage woody from the Scottish government
- The adjacent walkout is owed to instrumentality spot connected 20 December
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Health curate 'disappointed' nurses are striking
Health curate Helen Whately spoke earlier connected BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
In a lively interview, she was challenged by big Emma Barnett to explicate however years of Conservative authorities had led to the biggest onslaught successful NHS history.
Whately insisted that the authorities had been continuously investing successful the NHS and that the doorway of Health Secretary Steve Barclay was "always open" to national representatives.
Earlier, the caput of the Royal College of Nursing Pat Cullen had described that assertion arsenic "disingenuous" saying Barclay would lone sermon non-pay issues.
Whately besides said she was "disappointed" that nurses had gone connected strike.
- Analysis
Taking a person look astatine the government's figures
Robert Cuffe
Head of statistics
When discussing the nurses strike, authorities curate Maria Caulfield told some BBC Breakfast and Radio 4's Today programmes that a 1% wage emergence would outgo £700 cardinal pounds.
She told Nick Robinson connected Today “for each per cent we would person to enactment wage up, that's £700 cardinal we would person to find".
This is not close erstwhile applied to the nurses’ wage dispute.
It would beryllium close if the mean caregiver oregon midwife earned astir £200,000. But the mean wage for a caregiver is person to £37,000.
The Department of Health and Social Care person told america that this fig really covers the full “non-medical” workforce successful hospitals and assemblage wellness services.
That does includes nurses (“medical” unit are defined arsenic doctors).
But it besides covers a overmuch larger radical of workers including (for example) scientists, porters, administrative staff, physiotherapists, radiographers, ambulance unit and management.
Stress, choler and sadness connected picket lines
Sharon Barbour
BBC Look North
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The picket enactment extracurricular the Royal Victoria Infirmary successful Newcastle has grown from a fistful astatine dawn to much than 100 radical now.
There’s music, a changeless proviso of nutrient and blistery drinks from passers-by and, it seems, non-stop tooting from supportive motorists.
But there’s besides stress, choler and sadness connected the faces of those holding placards and lasting successful the freezing cold.
Many told america they would overmuch alternatively beryllium with their patients inside, but that they needed due designation for their work. They were exhausted from the pandemic and from ever being abbreviated staffed, they were stressed, aggravated and bittersweet that it had travel to this.
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