Nurses in England are set to strike again for 48 hours over the May bank holiday as members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) voted to reject the government’s new pay offer on Friday.
It comes as around 47,000 junior doctors finished their 96-hour strike in a separate dispute over pay at 7 a.m. on Saturday.
RCN members in 130 NHS trusts across England will walk out between 8 p.m. on April 30 and 8 p.m. on May 2. Nursing staff in emergency departments, intensive care units, cancer care, and some other services, who were exempt from previous strikes, will join the picket line for the first time….