Nurses to strike over bank holiday
Hospitals brace for staff shortages in A&E. But could this be the last nurses strike?
Nurses will walk out in an ongoing row over pay starting on Sunday and finishing on Bank Holiday Monday. Today鈥檚 Mishal Husain spoke to the General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing and asked her about the decision to include A&E shifts in the strike.
Mishal also spoke to Nick Hulme, Chief Executive of Colchester and Ipswich hospitals, to ask him how the strike is going to affect his hospitals.
And with two of the biggest health unions now having voted to accept the government鈥檚 pay offer, 91热爆 Health Editor Hugh Pym looks at the prospect of whether this could avert more nursing strikes.
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