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British nurses launch historic strike, as pay and staffing crises threaten the NHS
15/12/2022 04:13 PM | Click to read full article
Nurses across much of the UK launched a historic strike on Thursday, as they prepare to walk out of hospitals and onto picket lines after several years of falling pay and declining standards left the country’s nationalized healthcare system in a state of crisis. As many as 100,000 members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) – the UK’s biggest nursing union – are expected to take industrial action in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.