Nurses To 'overwhelmingly' Reject Pay Deal As Strike Vote Looms

Nurses will overwhelmingly cull their salary grant successful England this week, raising nan anticipation of strikes later successful nan year, nan BBC understands.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has been holding a consultative ballot connected their 3.6% salary rise, antecedently describing it arsenic "grotesque" to grant nurses a little summation than doctors, teachers, situation officers and nan equipped forces.

Any determination connected general onslaught action would not beryllium made until later successful nan year.

The authorities accepted successful May nan salary reappraisal body's recommendations of a 3.6% emergence for nurses this year.

The national will denote nan results of its suggestive ballot later this week but nan BBC understands it will show an "overwhelming" rejection of nan deal.

The turnout is expected to beryllium good complete nan 50% period needed for business action.

The national will request ministers discuss complete nan summertime to debar a general ballot for onslaught action successful nan autumn.

The RCN is understood to beryllium unfastened to talks connected wider salary structures, not conscionable header pay.

A national spokesperson said: "The results will beryllium announced to our members later this week. As nan largest portion of nan NHS workforce, nursing unit do not consciousness weighted and nan authorities must urgently statesman to move that around."

On Friday nan GMB national representing thousands of wellness workers, including ambulance crews, rejected nan government's salary woody successful an first consultative vote.

The GMB said its members voted by 67% against nan 3.6% salary grant offered for 2025/26 successful England.

The national has written to Health Secretary Wes Streeting calling for an urgent gathering to talk salary and different issues.

GMB nationalist caput Rachel Harrison said: "Our nationalist NHS and ambulance committees met connected 24 July to talk nan ballot results and find what nan adjacent steps should be.

"Today, we person written to Secretary of State Wes Streeting, asking him to meet pinch america to talk salary and different issues of important value to GMB members.

"We await his reply pinch interest."

Thousands of resident doctors successful England, antecedently known arsenic inferior doctors, began a five-day onslaught connected Friday aft nan authorities and nan British Medical Association grounded to scope an statement complete pay.

The wellness caput said while it was not imaginable to destruct disruption to nan NHS, it was being kept to a minimum.