On a morning when icy conditions slowed the region to a crawl, nurses were in place on the picket line by sunrise in what is building into a fight to the bitter end.
Hundreds of staff braved the freezing temperatures and lined both sides of the pavement outside Whiston Hospital yesterday. The action was the first of consecutive strike days - an escalation on December’s historic action by Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members.
While Liverpool hospitals were not part of this week’s demonstration, 55 NHS trusts across England were included. This involved staff at Knowsley, Wirral and St Helens hospitals.
