Healthcare strikes across the United Kingdom are escalating as nurses and ambulance staff join the picket lines over pay disputes with the government, leading the health minister to ask the public to scale back activities to avoid getting hurt and winding up in the hospital.
The British government said Tuesday it will not offer more money to nurses and ambulance crews to end strikes that are piling pressure on an already overstretched health system.
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Steve Barclay has formed a taskforce of academics and experts from the NHS and private sector to advise him on the best ways of slashing long waits which will meet for the first time today.