National Health Service nurses in Britain will strike on Thursday in their first ever national walkout, as a bitter dispute with the government over pay ramps up pressure on already-stretched hospitals at one of the busiest times of year.
An estimated 100,000 nurses will strike at 76 hospitals and health centres on Thursday, cancelling thousands of non-urgent operations, such as hip replacements, and tens of thousands of outpatient appointments in Britain's state-funded NHS.this winter, with strikes crippling the rail network and postal service, and airports bracing for disruption over Christmas.
"It is deeply regrettable some union members are going ahead with strike action," health minister Steve Barclay said. Barclay said patients should continue to seek urgent medical care and attend appointments unless they have been told not to. The government in Scotland avoided a nursing strike by holding talks on pay, an outcome which the RCN had hoped for in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but Barclay is not budging.
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