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Nurses to hold two days of strike action in December
Graham Revie, Chair of the RCN Trade Union Committee (centre), joins nurses (left to right) Gerard Swinton, Temitope Soile, Annette Bailey and Natalie Brooks at Downing Street, London to hand in The Fair Pay for Nursing petition, in November 2021

NURSES are to hold two days of strike action next month in a dramatic escalation of the NHS pay row.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) announced its members will stage their first ever national walkouts on December 15 and 20.

Strikes will take place in England, Wales and Northern Ireland after the British government turned down offers of formal, detailed negotiations as an alternative to industrial action.

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