British ministers will meet with trade unions and try to bring an end to a wave of strike action across sectors from healthcare to transport as workers demand higher pay
With pay rises failing to keep up with double-digit inflation, nurses, ambulance staff, and rail workers are among those who have staged walk outs
Teaching unions, who are due to announce the result of their strike ballots in the coming days, are set to meet with the education minister on Monday. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday he was willing to discuss pay rises for nurses in England, who are due to go on strike again on January 18 and 19 after walking out for two days in December.National Health Service aims to begin discharging thousands of patients into care homes and other settings in the next few weeks in an effort to free up desperately needed beds during one of its toughest ever winters.
Health services statistics showed that more than nine in 10 beds in hospitals were occupied in the week running up to New Year, with 13,000 beds a day taken up by patients who were medically fit to be discharged.The government said in a statement it would make up to $242 million of additional funding available in England to buy short-term care places to allow patients who doctors judge have low medical needs to be looked after outside hospital and over $50 million to improve existing facilities.
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