“We really want the government to act'
Hundreds of ambulance staff and paramedics have walked out again across Northamptonshire in another planned strike over pay. East Midlands Ambulance Service said it believes up to half of its 4,000-strong workforce are not be at work.
Health secretary Steve Barclay said the strikes were "extremely regrettable". He told BBC Breakfast that the NHS is already under “very severe pressure" which has seen a "seven-fold increase in flu admissions".GMB officer Rachelle Wilkins, who attended the picket line with members at Mereway Ambulance Station in Northampton, said members wanted a pay rise in line with inflation after “bitterly disappointing” progress so far in talks with the government.
Members also want to improve their working conditions and the NHS is “quite clearly in crisis” with long waits for ambulances to drop off patients at hospitals throughout England, she added.
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