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• Barclay expected to urge fresh talks aimed at ending health strikes

  18-12-2022 21:30
  RCN says talks must take place this week or more strikes will be tabled for new year as ambulance staff prepare for Wednesday walkoutThe health secretary, Steve Barclay, is expected to contact health unions to urge a fresh round of talks aimed at averting further strikes, amid new warnings that more action could put patients in danger.It comes as No 10 rejected a proposal to give nurses a one-off lump-sum payment in an attempt to end the industrial action, one of the measures Barclay had suggest
  
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• Nicola Jennings on fat cats in fine fettle – cartoon

  18-12-2022 20:30
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• Ministers can – and must – give nurses a fair pay rise | Letters

  18-12-2022 19:21
  The government should not try to hide behind pay review bodies, write Alastair Hatchett, Peter Ball, Laurence Jackson, Jeff Brice and Alan InnesPolly Toynbee is correct to criticise government ministers for falsely claiming their hands are tied on public sector salaries by supposedly independent pay review bodies (Who do you believe: the brilliant NHS staff who treated my cancer, or ministers who spin and lie? 14 December).In December 2021, the Treasury’s economic evidence to the review bo
  
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• Barclay expected to urge fresh talks aimed at ending nurses’ strike

  18-12-2022 15:36
  Royal College of Nursing has said talks must take place this week or more strikes will be tabled for new yearThe health secretary, Steve Barclay, is expected to write to the nursing union to urge a fresh round of talks aimed at averting further strikes, amid new warnings that more action could put patients in danger.It comes as No 10 rejected a proposal to give nurses a one-off lump sum payment in an attempt to end industrial action, one of the measures Barclay had suggested as a compromise in c
  
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• UK government will stay ‘resolute’ on nurses’ pay, says Oliver Dowden

  18-12-2022 11:38
  Minister defends refusal to override pay offer despite threat of further industrial action in JanuaryOliver Dowden has said the UK government will remain “resolute” on pay for nurses despite the potential for further strikes in January, as the NHS confederation chief said it was inevitable patients would be harmed by the strikes.The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said there will be “more hospitals and more nurses taking part than at present” in strikes throughout Janu
  
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• The strikes are a baleful legacy of a 12-year obsession with tax cuts and a small state | Will Hutton

  18-12-2022 09:00
  David Cameron first took aim at public sector workers in 2010. Continued Conservative policies have brought them to their kneesThe anger, despair, hardship and sense of being trapped that drove last week’s nurses’ strike, the first in the history of the Royal College of Nursing, with ambulance workers and other large parts of the NHS joining them this Wednesday, did not come out of a clear blue sky. They have been years in the making, as has the industrial action blighting rail, the
  
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