NHS Providers interim chief executive Saffron Cordery said the "last thing" the NHS needed was prolonged industrial action as winter hits.
She said there was no doubt patients would lose out, with longer waits for hospital treatment.
Unions in England are meeting ministers on Tuesday after Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members voted to strike. BBC News
See also:
- Speech: Nurses going on strike is in nobody’s best interest Department of Health and Social Care
- Nurses' strike will fuel inflation and 'help no one', Health Secretary warns The Daily Mail
- Co-ordinated strikes by NHS staff could bring hospitals to standstill The Daily Telegraph
- Thousands of NHS workers not paid enough to live on, new figures show The Independent
- Health secretary to meet six unions in bid to avert wave of strikes across NHS The Guardian
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