Page 6 - Nurses Strike News Today

Since industrial action first started to gather speed last year, concerns have been raised about a wage-price spiral causing entrenched inflation.

Rt Rev Iain Greenshields warned allowing terminally ill patients to legally end their own lives would permanently change the NHS, particularly given how much pressure it is currently under.

Key health and transport workers, driving instructors, bus drivers and postal workers have all gone on strike in recent months in a standoff with the government.

LONDON: Five-year-old Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died from pneumonia after being sent home, despite a doctor describing his tonsillitis as the worst he had ever seen.

Thousands of nurses in Britain have walked out in a new strike over pay, with no end in sight to a wave of industrial action that has piled pressure on the U.K.'s overburdened public health system.

Tens of thousands of nurses in England will strike in February for the third time in as many months, adding further pressure on British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over crippling disruption to key

Nurses at 55 NHS trusts in England are already due to cause chaos by walking out on Wednesday and Thursday, but the February action will grow bigger and cover 73 trusts.

Ambulance response times in England nose-dived in December, with 999 crews being slower than ever to attend heart attack and stroke victims. Patients were left waiting 90 minutes on average.

Problems are mounting at hospitals across the nation as they try to deal with widespread staffing shortages, overworked nurses beaten down by the pandemic and a busted pipeline of new nurses.

The tentative agreement reached Thursday for 7,000 striking nurses in New York City does nothing to address the core staffing issues at stake in the strike.