Health Secretary Steve Barclay has said the Royal College of Nursing should have waited before staging a 28-hour walkout, which is due to start at 8pm on Sunday evening. Read more:
The RCN subsequently offered assurances after the hospital, which is the largest paediatric centre in the UK, raised"serious concerns" over staffing.According to the RCN website, limited safety critical mitigations would include allowing some staff"to preserve life-and-limb" care in emergency departments and intensive care units.
"In fact, it was the Royal College of Nursing contacted NHS England to ask for a process to be put in place so that we could make sure that the strike was safe for our patients."Nurses' strike: ‘National exemptions in place'However, the union leader repeatedly refused to be drawn on whether the strike action would put patients at risk.
Pressed again, Ms Cullen said:"They are going on strike because patients' lives are being put at risk every single day and why? Because we have tens of thousands of vacant nursing posts." Unions including Unison and the GMB have voted in favour of a government pay offer to end the strikes, while Unite and the RCN have voted against.
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