Nurses' strike will leave NHS with a 'bank holiday' level of service
The planned nurses' strike will turn the NHS into a “bank holiday service” with some patients facing cancelled chemotherapy and dialysis treatments, senior health leaders warned on Sunday.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is expected to announce this week that its 300,000 members have voted in favour of strike action over pay.
It is understood that the union will commit to delivering a bank holiday, or Christmas Day, level of service during the strike, with some chemotherapy, dialysis and planned surgery cancelled, a senior health source told The Telegraph.
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They claim that they are all burned out. But most of them had months of holiday during the lockdowns, passing the time by making videos of dancing in the corridors. How about giving a pay rise to the girls who worked on the Covid wards and ignoring the others?
You could fund the pay rise by cutting the pay of teachers who closed their schools.
This appears to be coordinated. Sunak and Hunt say there will be cuts and general belt-tightening, and the "elite divisions" are sent in against them. The miners are of course no longer available.
I last saw my GP in November 2019.
I would have expected a Staurday night level of service. Where you don't stand a chance of getting in for anything
dearieme - and some of the funding could come from GPs.
Sam - yes it does appear to be coordinated, as were the attacks on Liz Truss but from a different political angle. There is a lot of it about.
James - I'm not sure when I last saw my GP, I can't even remember what he looks like.
Bucko - and we know why that is.
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