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By Zoe Conway
Employment correspondent
It's the astir fantastic clip of the year, truthful the opus goes - that's unless 1 of this week's strikes disrupts your Christmas plans. On Tuesday, nurses are staging different walkout - arsenic the authorities successful England stands "resolute" connected the contented of their pay. Patient surgeries and appointments volition beryllium cancelled.
Cabinet curate Oliver Dowden insisted connected Sunday that ministers were "trying to beryllium reasonable" implicit wage - but said they had a work to support finances nether control. Last week, galore thousands of nurses stopped enactment for a day. The aforesaid is apt connected Tuesday.
This is my latest regular briefing, with tons of utile information.
So, who is connected onslaught connected Tuesday?
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Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) volition locomotion retired again crossed England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Last Thursday, the archetypal onslaught day, astatine slightest 19,000 patients had surgeries and appointments postponed - according to figures released by NHS trusts successful England and Northern Ireland. In England alone, 9,999 unit were absent from enactment due to the fact that of the strike.
If you person a Tuesday appointment, and haven't been told it is cancelled, the proposal is to presume it's going up and don't telephone your section infirmary to check.
The onslaught volition impact nurses successful astir a 4th of hospitals and assemblage teams successful England, each wellness boards successful Northern Ireland and each but 1 successful Wales (the Aneurin Bevan successful south-east Wales).
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What NHS services volition beryllium running?
- Trade national laws state that life-preserving attraction has to beryllium provided - truthful each nursing unit are expected to enactment successful intensive and exigency care
- Other services, specified arsenic crab attraction and kidney dialysis, are besides apt to beryllium fixed immoderate protection
- Routine services volition beryllium affected however, specified arsenic planned operations similar genu and hep replacements, territory nursing and intelligence wellness care
- Each infirmary spot has been negotiating with section RCN representatives astir what attraction should beryllium provided - truthful levels of attraction volition vary
If determination are information concerns during the strike, nurses could beryllium pulled disconnected picket lines to work.
The RCN is calling for a wage emergence of 5% supra the RPI ostentation complaint - presently 14% - against which wage increases are often judged.
NHS unit successful England and Wales, including nurses, person already been fixed an mean summation of 4.75% - with a guaranteed emergence of astatine slightest £1,400 for the lowest paid.
In Northern Ireland, NHS unit are to get a akin increase - backdated to April.
Speaking aft past Thursday's strike, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the wage connection to nurses was due and fair. But immoderate wellness leaders and erstwhile Conservative ministers person urged the authorities to rethink.
In Scotland, RCN members are not striking. They person been considering an updated wage connection from the Scottish authorities - an mean 7.5% summation - which has already been accepted by Unite, Unison and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) - but rejected by the GMB union.
Driving tests cancelled
Civil servants successful the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) - including driving examiners - are striking connected Tuesday.
It's portion of regional, targeted enactment - with antithetic areas affected astatine antithetic times.
Until 24 December, the walkouts are successful north-west England and Yorkshire and the Humber.
Watch Make Sense of Strikes connected iPlayer and find retired much astir wherefore radical are striking and whether concern enactment works.
From Tuesday teatime, we volition person different onslaught briefing for you - looking up to Wednesday.
But, with Christmas edging closer, we cognize it's 1 of the busiest and astir chaotic weeks of the twelvemonth for galore people. So carnivore the pursuing successful caput for the week ahead:
When is the ambulance strike?
Wednesday 21 December - crossed astir of England and Wales. The walkout by the 3 unions volition impact non-life threatening calls lone - but it could spot radical who person had trips and falls not being responded to.
When are Royal Mail unit connected onslaught this week?
Friday 23 and Saturday 24 December - members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) volition locomotion retired connected 2 of the busiest days for pre-Christmas deliveries.
When is the adjacent bid strike?
There is ongoing disruption and immoderate localised strikes passim this week and good into next, but a national strike of RMT members is owed to commencement astatine 18:00 connected 24 December until 06:00 connected 27 December. However, nether mean circumstances, trains don't tally connected Christmas Day oregon Boxing Day anyway.
How are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking portion successful onslaught action? You tin email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.
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