Nurses' strike: Critical care exemptions in place for 28-hour walkout, RCN chief insists, ahead of 28-hour walkout
The union initially said it would not agree to derogations - broad areas of care where staffing is guaranteed despite industrial action - fuelling concerns about patients being put at risk.until it was confident it could staff its services over the strike.But Ms Cullen told Ridge wider, national exemptions were in place.
"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."Defending the latest walkout she added:"They're 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.
Nurses make up a quarter of NHS staff and are the biggest proportion of the health service workforce.
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