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Hospitals urged to free up beds ahead of ambulance crew strikes

Ambulance crews in England are set to walk out for two days on December 21 and 28 over pay.

The Independent UK

16,000 appointments postponed during nurses’ strike, NHS data shows

Some 10,000 staff in England, as well as nurses in Wales and Northern Ireland, took part in the 12-hour action in a bitter dispute over pay.

The Independent UK

Strike calendar - all walkouts planned until the end of December

All the dates of strike action and stoppages across the NHS, trains, buses and Royal Mail

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Strep A cases in your area as 24 children among UK dead

NHS leaders worried as cases climb alongside flu surge

The Independent UK

Ministers warned cancer survival rates could fall due to NHS staff and pay crises

Exclusive: Head of Cancer Research UK says waiting lists for care could get even longer unless health service’s problems are fixed

The Guardian - UK

Up to 2,500 troops could cover striking public sector staff at £10m-a-week cost

Up to 2,500 troops are being readied to cover for Border Force, NHS staff and firefighters going out on strike - and they could cost £4,000 per soldier per week

Daily Mirror

NHS, DWP, post and train strike dates from now until February

DVSA and other staff will also walk out on dates in the coming weeks

Liverpool Echo

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Industrial action expected across the UK: strike dates from now until February

After industrial action by nurses and railway workers in recent days, here is a list of some of the strikes coming up between now and February.

The Independent UK

Mum working full time as nurse struggling to afford childcare

The 37-year-old newly qualified nurse said: "You shouldn't be going into debt when you're working, should you?"

Liverpool Echo

All the ITV dramas coming this winter from Nolly, to Without Sin and You & Me

Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd, Helena Bonham Carter, and Vicky McClure will star in brand new ITV dramas in the new year

Wales Online

The Independent’s health and travel correspondents win top journalism awards

Rebecca Thomas and Simon Calder were highly praised by the judges at the British Journalism Awards

The Independent UK

I’m a former Tory minister and a doctor – and I say give striking nurses a better pay deal

NHS workers in Scotland have been offered close to 8%. Surely their colleagues in England deserve as much, says Dan Poulter, MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich and a former health minister

The Guardian - UK

Humza Yousaf says tax rises necessary as he claims A&E will recover after winter

Health and social care services in Scotland will be allocated £19 billion in the 2023/24 budget to tackle the pressures facing the NHS

Daily Record

Dumfries and Galloway cancer patient waited nearly a full year to begin treatment

New figures from Public Health Scotland show none of the country's health boards met the Scottish Government's target of 95 per cent of patients beginning treatment within 62 days

Daily Record

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Evening Standard

Tory party chair Nadhim Zahawi uses strikes to try and boost party coffers

An email from the former chancellor urges supporters to join up to fight Labour and the unions

Evening Standard

Kettering: Tributes to NHS nurse Anju Asok killed alongside her two children in suspected triple murder

A 52-year-old man remains in custody on suspicion of murder as forensic teams examined the victims’ property

Daily Mirror

Labour's Wes Streeting says NHS is facing 'existential crisis' and needs reform

The Shadow Health Secretary also used a speech at the Policy Exchange think-tank to urge Rishi Sunak and Steve Barclay to hold face-to-face talks with unions to avert further strike action from nurses at 'breaking point'

The Independent UK

Nurses strikes: What are the demands and what is the government offering?

Industrial action is biggest by nurses in NHS history

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Wales Online

Asda halves the price of flu jab amid spike in cases

You can now get the jab for less than £5 if you don't qualify for an NHS vaccine

Evening Standard

The Leader podcast: Strike stories from the picket line

The Royal College of Nursing say they’ve been left with no alternative but to hold the biggest industrial action in NHS history.

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak resists pressure to negotiate with nurses on pay to avert strikes

The Prime Minister insisted the offer was ‘appropriate and fair’.

The Independent UK

Every date of the UK strikes in December from rail to nurses

Protests against salary stagnation and working conditions happening almost every day this month, threatening widespread disruption across Britain as Christmas approaches

The Independent UK

Fresh strike causes more misery for rail passengers as bitter dispute continues

Talks between the leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), train company employers and Rail Minister Huw Merriman on Thursday failed.

The Guardian - UK

UK government warned it has five days to stop NHS strikes spreading – as it happened

General secretary of Unite says NHS strike will deepen next week unless ministers undertake ‘serious pay talks’ with health staff

The Independent UK

Father paralysed by multiple sclerosis is back on his feet after ditching 75 tablets for ‘natural’ alternative

Tony Paterson, 33, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in January 2011 just one day after landing his dream job

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