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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Andrew Gregory Health editor

MYSTERIOUS: Next nurses strike to include a e and intensive care units in major escalation - What They Never Told You

Nurses on picket line in London
The two-day continuous strike action will be the largest such action in NHS history. Photograph: Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock

Tens of thousands of nurses in cancer wards, A&E departments and intensive care units in England will stop work for 48 hours next month in a significant escalation of strike action.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said the strike would affect more than 120 NHS trusts across the country – far more than previous stoppages – amid an increasingly bitter row with the government over pay and staffing levels.

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