NHS Caught in Vicious Cycle of Strikes and Winter Pressure, Leader Warns

NHS Caught in Vicious Cycle of Strikes and Winter Pressure, Leader Warns
Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) at the Florence Nightingale statue on the picket line as nurses take industrial action over pay near the Florence Nightingale Community Hospital in Derby on Jan. 18, 2023. Jacob King/PA Media
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The National Health Service (NHS) is trapped in a vicious cycle of winter pressures and strikes, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation said as thousands of nurses walked out on Wednesday over pay.

Speaking to the PA News Agency, Taylor said without a “realistic prospect of a solution” to the pay dispute, the NHS is “facing the prolonged war of attrition between the government and the unions that we’ve been fearing.”

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Lily Zhou is an Ireland-based reporter covering China news for The Epoch Times.
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