Newspaper headlines: 'NHS leaders despair' and 'civil service crisis'

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Newspaper headlines: 'NHS leaders despair' and 'civil service crisis'
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The impact of NHS strikes and a call for the head of the civil service to resign lead the papers.

A variety of stories lead Tuesday's papers. The i reports Health Secretary Steve Barclay is "optimistic" a majority of NHS unions will vote to accept the government's offer of a 5% pay rise when leaders meet on Tuesday. The paper says the current waiting list of 7.2 million patients is set to grow as a result of staff walkouts and that hospital bosses are "desperate" for strike action to end.

A report is set to say that Sue Gray, the civil servant who led the investigation into the Partygate scandal, held talks with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer about becoming his chief of staff while still working for a team that was advising a separate Commons inquiry into the saga, according to the Telegraph.

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