Three stories: 🔴 Nurses strike today in first mass walkout in a century 🔴 Search in Channel continues after four confirmed dead and 39 others rescued 🔴 Thousands face fourth day without power in Shetland
Saffron Cordery, interim chief executive of NHS Providers, said agency NHS trusts were"pulling out all the stops" to lessen the impact on patients.
When it submitted the 5% figure to the independent pay review body in March, inflation was running at 7.5%.Meanwhile, in Scotland, RCN members are being consulted on a revised pay offer from the Scottish government."It has been a difficult decision taken by hundreds of thousands who begin to remove their labour in a bid to be heard, recognised and valued."Nursing staff on picket lines is a sign of failure on the part of governments.
Mr Barclay added:"My number one priority is to keep patients safe - I've been working across government and with medics outside the public sector to ensure safe staffing levels - but I do remain concerned about the risk that strikes pose to patients. "We need to find a way as a government, and the union does too, to get to that centre point, that point of agreement straight away," he told Talk TV.
The Western Trust in Northern Ireland said it had"regrettably taken the decision to cancel some non-emergency services", with 587 outpatient appointments postponed across Altnagelvin Hospital, Omagh Primary Care and Treatment Centre and South West Acute Hospital.
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