in place previously around emergency care, cancer care. i think that is a real risk to patient safety. i hope they do not feel that escalating in that way is necessary. i really hope they don t. i must say, i think the dereliction of leadership from the government this week has been appalling. we have really seen or helped anything of the health secretary, the prime minister told parliament he did not want to get in the middle of this. you are the prime minister in the biggest crisis in the history of the nhs, hundreds of thousands of cancelled operations, real risk to patient safety, not my words, the words of nhs leaders, the prime minister does not think it is to get in the middle of it? ., ., , not think it is to get in the middle ofit? ., , of it? the labour party has exoressed of it? the labour party has expressed concerns i of it? the labour party has expressed concerns about| of it? the labour party has i expressed concerns about the more significant strike, do the therefore
answers the nhs needs to make sure we are not your again and again. take our workforce plan, the biggest expansion of nhs staff in history, more doctors, nurses, or midwives. fixing the fundamental shortage of staff in the nhs we do not end up back you re over and over again. of course, should we win the next general election, there will be general election, there will he talks, negotiations, and i will be very happy to come back and see how labour is handling specific pay rises then. what we re doing this far out from the election is in broad terms setting out the fundamental things we need fix about the nhs. hopefully making sure that we have got an economic plan that sees sustained growth in the economy so that we can invest in people s p and other public services without having to hike up taxes. itruihat and other public services without having to hike up taxes.- having to hike up taxes. what is interesting having to hike up taxes. what is interesting is, i having to hike up taxe
and reasonable proposal, and the vote by the rcn was hugely disappointing. other health unions are still consulting their members. we strongly urge the nhs unions that are still voting to support this deal because this is going to be better for patients who depend on the nhs but also betterfor nhs staff who want to get back to work and look after those patients. # tell me why.# junior doctors in england, meanwhile, were out on picket lines again on the finalfull day of a four day strike, with no sign of any end to their dispute. the bma has called for the conciliation service acas to be invited in to get talks going. the government says that it is possible but only if they drop the 35% pay claim which ministers argue is unreasonable and unaffordable. i ve just visited the office of steve barclay. we have a group of doctors here who are hoping to drop off a letter. a small group of doctors demonstrated outside
dealt with this dispute? yes, i - think if you step back and think the government has several big priorities and one is keeping or bringing inflation down so it does not want to agree to pay settlements it thinks will fuel that point to another is to tackle the waiting lists in the nhs and a third one is to bring back economic growth which is flatlining. more strikes are not going to help those second two things but tonight what downing street is indicating is it wants to say that there is one union that speaks for a large number of health workers and have accepted it and it should be seen as a good deal, and that several hundred thousand more who are balloting and two more unions, results by the end of the month you should also accept it and it wants to wait for the result. the rcn will it strike action at the nhs is under severe pressure. junior doctors are talking about escalating strike action through the year and there are no talks going on there. and the deal that has been agreed
it was the most widespread action in the history of the nursing union. what do we want? fair pay! striking rcn members on picket lines. a deal was agreed by the leadership, along with other unions, but now it has been thrown out by members and another strike is planned. our members have made that decision today. this offer was not enough for our members and it is now down to the government to listen to the voice of nursing and put a better offer on the table. they need to restore the nurses pay. good boy, sit down. vicki is a paediatric nurse. she voted to reject the offer. i don t feel like an offer of 5% is going to fix the problems we have in the nhs. we have huge recruitment and retention issues and to offer nurses 5% isn t going to fix that. claire, who has been an nhs nurse for 30 years, voted in favour of the pay deal, though she says it was with a heavy heart.