Uk Nurses News Today

"A call for evidence" has been launched to understand if Agenda for Change contracts are preventing NHS nurses in their career development and if a separate pay structure for the UK nursing staff

In a shocking incident of "institutional racism" in the UK, nurses reportedly tied a Sikh patient's beard with plastic gloves, leaving him in his own urine and offering him food he could not eat for religious reasons, according to a media report.

Members of the union rejected a government pay offer on Friday and immediately announced an escalation in strike action

Nurses will pause strike action in England to enter “intensive talks” with the British government on pay and conditions, both sides said on Tuesday, in the..

The main nursing union accuses the government of failing to negotiate seriously on improving their pay deal for the current year.

The striking nurses are just one of numerous UK public and private sector workers taking industrial action over pay and working conditions.

The RMT Union, which represents rail workers across Britain, has for many months been asking the government for better working conditions and an increase in their pay to match the double digit inflation.

Up to 100,000 members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are holding a one-day stoppage from 0800 to 2000 GMT after rejecting a government pay offer.

In their biggest-ever strike action, thousands of nurses in the United Kingdom are set to stage strikes on December 15 and 20, joining other workers in the country who are taking industrial action over pay.

The British Nurses Union, representing hundreds of thousands of nurses in the United Kingdom, has voted to hold the first nationwide strike in the union's 106-year history to demand fair pay and safe staffing.