Strikes by ambulance service workers and nurses dominate the front pages on Tuesday.
The Financial Times leads with Health Secretary Steve Barclay holding "crisis talks" with ambulance unions amid warnings industrial action over pay could last six months. The paper says the health secretary will meet three ambulance union bosses to discuss cover for 999 calls during their strike over pay on Wednesday. It adds industrial action by NHS workers poses the "biggest challenge" to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Only patients at immediate risk of dying, like those who have stopped breathing, will be sent an ambulance during the 24-hour stoppage, with everyone else having to make other arrangements, writes the paper.Mr Sunak has told the Daily Mail he will not back down over striking unions' "unreasonable" pay demands. The paper suggests the prime minister indicated he would tolerate months of disruption rather than risk an inflationary wage-price spiral.
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