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• NHS crisis deepens as nursing union plans ‘mega strike’ in England

  15-04-2023 20:00
  
  Doctors could join coordinated strike as Royal College of Nurses announce national ballot on mass actionEngland’s biggest nursing union is to ballot its members on whether to join a “make or break” mega-strike that would lead to mass action by nurses in every hospital trust in the country, the Observer can reveal.The move by the Royal College of Nursing to “up the ante” by holding a single national vote – rather than conducting ballots in each individual trust
  
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• Further England nurses’ strikes present ‘severe challenge’ to NHS

  15-04-2023 11:03
  
  NHS leader says threat of joint strike with junior doctors could pose hardest challenge yetA 48-hour nurses’ strike in England in May will present “severe challenges”, and the threat of coordinated industrial action with junior doctors could pose their “most difficult challenge” to date, an NHS boss has warned.Speaking after a four-day junior doctors strike came to an end at 7am on Saturday, Sir Julian Hartley, the chief executive of NHS Providers, said fresh strike
  
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