First Uk Strike News Today

In wales, six out of seven health of the boards there are seeing industrial action. while all of northern irelands health trusts are affected by the strike. but in scotland, no nurses are striking today after two unions voted to accept an improved pay offer — ballots for other union members are under way. we will be live with correspondence on the picket line in belfast, cardiff and london. 0ur health correspondent, catherine burns, has this report. yay! lindsey thompsons been here before. she...

Said, for their part, that this strike will be having an impact on an already fragile service. and while it is worth remembering that while it is worth remembering that while some planned procedures certainly have been affected, there is an impact on services, all the urgent care and life—saving treatment, for example, is going ahead here as elsewhere in the uk. chris, thank you very much. lets go now to cardiff and our correspondent, tomos morgan. good morning to you as well. the nurses in th...

As if its a christmas day. but if theres a life or death situation, hospital bosses can ask some nurses to come back in off the picket line. well, patient safety is the key priority for trusts. if you need urgent medical help, consider an urgent treatment centre or iii or other routes. if you havent been contacted about a planned procedure on the day, the message is to go ahead and to turn up for that procedure. and this is day one. if theres no breakthrough, a second strike is planned for next ...

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Medicine are totally exempt from the strike. chemotherapy, dialysis. they should continue as normal. as should intensive care units and there will be a christmas day model, essentially meaningful a&e routine will because accidents do happen then. other areas of nursing such as community nursing on a christmas day model will mean reduced staffing. nurses in the community might be giving palliative care today, or going out and giving insulin but not so much. but really i think the impact will most...