seven months of disruption for the public before they agreed to get into a room, so the hope is that the lesson can be working with trade unions can deliver acceptable results to trade union members but also ones that work for the majority of the workforce and the government. let s move forwards and hope the next pay round is not as mired in difficulty. ijust i just heard from ijust heard from somewhere on a picket line in kent from the union unite, and we also heard that the rcn might be re balloting their members. do you have a message for the other nhs staff workers? i think it s important that all trade unions, we are all part of collective structures as well as individual trade unions, and that on our part, we need to acknowledge that it our part, we need to acknowledge thatitis our part, we need to acknowledge that it is not a unanimous position. i do struggle to remember a time when we have had unanimous positions on the staff side. it is very, very rare that you get s
be on people s pay packets. thank you very much forjoining us here on bbc news. let s go over to our health correspondent nick trickle. nick, big news that the pay deal has gone through. how significant a moment is this for the nhs? it is incredibly significant. we have had a rolling series of strikes since december. nurses have taken industrial action. physios and ambulance staff, combined with the interaction withjunior ambulance staff, combined with the interaction with junior doctors, it has led to more than half a million operations and appointments being cancelled. so what we have two date is not the end of that industrial action, because what has been agreed to date is separate to the british medical association s disputes with the government, which are still ongoing. but that does mean that most of that strike action we have seenin most of that strike action we have seen in the past few months by the