Services deemed 'life-preserving' and 'emergency-type care' will continue on strike days, a nursing chief said, but she did not give exact detail about which departments would remain staffed when colleagues stage a walk-out.
Royal College of Nursing Staff at both Shropshire Community Health Trust and the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospitals voted in favour of strike action earlier this month.Details will be set out soon about which services within the NHS will be exempt from the action.
In similar statements both Shropcom and RJAH said they were working on plans to cope with the action. Echoing Ms Keegan's comments, a spokesman for Shropcom said:"We are in the process of working on our business continuity plans to ensure patient safety is maintained. Anybody who will be impacted will be contacted in due course."
Mr Barclay has said the nursing union's demands – which he cited as a 19.2 per cent pay rise, costing £10 billion a year – are"not affordable".
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