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NHS chiefs have warned that strikes by ambulance workers next week could put patients' lives at risk - after walkouts by nurses yesterday led to 70,000 operations being cancelled.
Ministers face mounting pressure from their own MPs to resolve the nursing strikes after walkouts forced the NHS to cancel up to 70,000 appointments.
Hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland cancelled between 40 and 60 per cent of elective procedures, such as hip and knee ops, when up to 100,000 nurses joined the picket lines.
No10 needs to move on pay, ex-Government officials and some senior Tories say after just one day of strike action by 100,000 NHS nurses but the PM and Barclay refuse to budge.
Brine told the BBC’s World At One Programme, “Everyone needs to cool it and I think sending it back to the pay review body to have a look ...