LONDON/BELFAST — National Health Service nurses in Britain staged a strike on Thursday, their first ever national walkout, as a bitter dispute with the…
An estimated 100,000 nurses are striking at 76 hospitals and health centers, canceling an estimated 70,000 appointments, procedures and surgeries in Britain’s state-funded NHS.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter.
“What a tragic day. This is a tragic day for nursing, it is a tragic day for patients, patients in hospitals like this, and it is a tragic day for people of this society and for our NHS,” Pat Cullen, the head of the Royal College of Nursing union, told the BBC on a picket line.Article content The government has refused to discuss pay, which Cullen said raised the prospect of more strikes into next year.
Outside St Thomas’ Hospital in central London, Ethnea Vaughan, 50, a practice development nurse said she felt nurses had no option but to strike, blaming a government that had ignored their concerns for years.Article content “I didn’t make this decision lightly … I decided it was time to say ‘enough’,” said Louise Mitchell, who has been a nurse for 40 years.
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