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Pressure mounts over health and economic pledges as Sunak campaigns to shore up Conservative heartlands in poll test• Read more: NHS crisis deepens as nurses plan ‘mega strike’A prolonged NHS crisis stoked by further strikes risks derailing Rishi Sunak…
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 i…
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 the “…
Rejection of pay deal underlines nurses’ fury at state of health service as RCN’s handling of dispute is questionedFriday’s announcement by the Royal College of Nursing that its members had rejected the pay offer on the table for NHS workers dashed any…
RCN members refuse offer recommended by union leaders by 54% to 46% in ballotNurses are to launch fresh strike action across England later this month after rejecting the government’s pay offer, sparking fears stoppages could go on until Christmas.In a …
Genome sequencing of children with rare conditions should improve speed and accuracy of NHS diagnosesAbout 5,500 people with severe developmental disorders now know the genetic cause of their condition thanks to a major study that will be used to impro…
This live blog has now closed, you can read more on this story hereNurses in England are preparing to go on strike until Christmas after members of the country’s biggest nursing union voted against the government’s pay deal, the Guardian has learned.Th…
Union to announce result of vote on Friday after its leaders recommended that ministers’ offer be acceptedNurses in England will go back on strike this month if RCN members reject ministers’ latest pay offer, with officials saying the result of the thr…
NHS data for February shows 125,505 people spent at least 12 hours waiting to be admitted, transferred or dischargedOne in 10 people attending A&E in England face a “dangerous” wait of at least 12 hours for staff to deal with their problem, previou…
GoFundMe reports doubling in number of medical appeals mentioning ‘go private’ or ‘privately’ since before CovidThe number of Britons crowdfunding for private medical care has soared since the Covid-19 pandemic, as NHS waiting lists continue to reach r…