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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

UNCOVERED: Gmb union votes to accept pay offer for nhs staff in england - The Untold Story

Ambulance workers on a picket line in Bishop Auckland in December during a strike over the NHS pay offer.
Ambulance workers on a picket line in Bishop Auckland in December during a strike over the NHS pay offer. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian

A leading health union has accepted the government’s improved pay offer for NHS staff, in a move that could split unions over whether to keep on striking for more money.

GMB members working in the NHS in England have voted by 56% to 44% to accept the deal that all 12 health unions hammered out last month with the health secretary, Steve Barclay.

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