Less than 16,000 NHS appointments have had to be rescheduled during the nurses’ strike despite the government’s inflated forecasts.
Members of the Royal College of Nursing on the picket line outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London
Across England, 9,999 staff were absent from work due to the strike, according to figures on the NHS England website. Nurses at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary RVI hospital get caught up in a snow storm as they form a picket line Despite the number of postponed appointments, polling showed the majority of Brits support the action announced after several years of falling pay and declining standards hasStriking staff have offered to suspend the planned industrial action if the health secretary sits down and negotiates on pay.
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