health workers and said that follows an independent pay review body. so what sort of care will be affected? unions say emergency care will continue, more or less as normal but there is a lot of local negotiation going on to actually work out exactly what that will consist of. but for planned appointments, and procedures, then there will be significant disruption with patients being told their appointments and operation, which are non urgent will be postponed and they will be hearing about that in the next day or so. . ~ the chancellor, jeremy hunt, has warned the economic picture will get worse before it gets better, as official figures show the uk economy slowed across all of the main sectors between august and october. the office for national statistics say output shrank by 0.3% overall across the three months, though in october the economy grew by 0.5% as businesses bounced back from the extra bank holiday for queen elizabeth s funeral. 0ur economics editor