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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Toby Helm Political editor

MYSTERIOUS: Nurses offer to call off strikes if sunak matches welsh pay offer - What They Never Told You

Pat Cullen, head of the Royal College of Nursing, talks to nurses at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.
Pat Cullen, head of the Royal College of Nursing, talks to nurses at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. Photograph: Jon Santa Cruz/REX/Shutterstock

The head of the UK’s biggest nursing union has issued a last ditch appeal to Rishi Sunak to agree a compromise over pay, to prevent the worst strikes in the NHS’s history from causing massive disruption to patients across England on Monday.

In a letter to the prime minister, Pat Cullen, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said she was “appealing directly” to Sunak for the first time as she asked him to match offers made by the Welsh and Scottish governments, both of which have led to strikes being suspended.

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