No10 is given FINAL chance to avoid devastating nurses strike

No10 is given FINAL chance to avoid devastating nurses strike The largest NHS strikes in Britain's history can be avoided if ministers agree to an inflation-busting pay rise, the UK's nursing union has said, as another NHS union joins the fray. 

The ultimatum from The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) comes as the union is due to publish the results of its ballot on strike action later this week, with a large majority of nurses already understood to have voted in favour. 

More strike pain could also be heading No10's way, with the union Unite announcing today it will be asking 100,000 of its NHS members if they are willing to walk off the job over pay. The Daily Mail

See also:

• Fears that a MILLION NHS staff could go on strike this winter in a major series of walkouts over pay The Daily Mail
• Striking NHS nurses to give 'Christmas level of service': Cancer treatment and routine surgery set to be cancelled as thousands walk out this winter The Daily Mail
• Nursing union tells agency workers NOT to cover unprecedented NHS strikes The Daily Mail
• Nurses’ strike will test the public’s patience The Daily Telegraph
• Nurses will be striking for their pay, your health – and the future of the NHS | Polly Toynbee The Guardian
• Thousands of operations likely to be cancelled during NHS strikes, trusts chiefs warn The Independent
• Nurses’ strike: ‘We have no choice but to do this for our patients’, says nurse supporting walkout iNews
• RCN industrial action ballot: ‘Strong support’ with results expected this week Nursing in Practice