The RCN wants progress in negotiations by the end of January or says it will ballot more members.
The RCN has said nurses should receive a pay increase of 5% above inflation this year, which at the peak rate of inflation would have equated to a 19% rise, although reports have suggested it would accept 10%.
The government says the demands are unaffordable and pay rises were decided by independent pay review bodies. General secretary Pat Cullen described Rishi Sunak's position in their negotiation deadlock as "baffling, reckless and politically ill-considered". She said: "The prime minister gave nursing staff a little optimism that he was beginning to move, but seven days later he appears entirely uninterested in finding a way to stop this."Without, they will keep leaving in record numbers with consequences for patients that Robert Francis documented in painful detail."
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