🔴 Nurses in A&E and cancer care departments across England will join colleagues in an unprecedented 48-hour strike next month
The college will increase financial support for its members who lose wages by taking part, from an initial strike benefit rate of £50 per day to £80 per day, with the rate increasing to £120 from the fourth day of action.
Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay said: “Failure to provide cover during strike action for key services like cancer care is a significant escalation from the Royal College of Nursing that will risk patient safety. In previous strikes, “life-preserving” services such as chemotherapy, dialysis, critical care, paediatric intensive care and paediatric A&E have been exempt from strike action.
“With further strikes by ambulance workers planned in the coming days and weeks, and junior doctors’ walkouts also likely, trust leaders are now in a near-impossible position. They’re deeply concerned the escalation could hamper their efforts to tackle care backlogs and compromise continuity of care for some.
More than 88,000 appointments across the NHS have been postponed in England due to strike action in recent weeks.
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