The ongoing pay dispute in the healthcare sector has led to a one-day strike that has affected cancer and emergency care for the first time. The leader of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has urged the health secretary to resolve the issue. This blog is now closed.
The head of the RCN has warned that the health secretary, Barclay, has lost the support of the public and that striking nurses are not going away. Meanwhile, reports and leaflets about Hong Kong were confiscated by parliamentary security guards from attendees of an event in Westminster, in case they caused political upset. This move has been condemned by a senior Conservative MP as “completely daft”.
Officers on the parliamentary estate forced people attending a meeting of the all-party parliamentary group on Hong Kong last Monday to hand over copies of a report by the group about press freedom there, as well as leaflets campaigning for the release of the media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
The ongoing pay dispute has led to a situation where nurses’ pay does not reflect the hours they are working. The last decade has made things considerably worse. Our colleagues are out in force because things have got so bad that we cannot pay our…
2023-05-01 11:16:05
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