GMB members have voted overwhelmingly to reject the three-year pay deal for NHS and ambulance workers, it was announced today at the union’s conference in Brighton.

In total, 87 per cent of NHS members turned down the deal –  which amounts to three more years of real-terms pay cuts for over half of NHS employees, GMB says.

Tens of thousands of the NHS members – including two thirds of all ambulance staff in England – rejected it.