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Tens of thousands of UK nurses go on strike in
first such industrial action in NHS history – live
Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to
refuse to work from 8am until 8pm in first of two planned walkouts over pay
dispute
21m ago
08.02 GMT
RCN chief: 'It's tragic that this government has
decided not to speak to us'
Pat Cullen,
the Royal College of Nursing chief executive, has said there is “nothing
independent” about the independent pay review body process, adding that
“hundreds of nurses” are leaving the profession every day.
“This is a
tragic day for nurses, a tragic day for patients… and it’s a tragic day for the
people of society and for our NHS,” she told BBC Breakfast. “And it’s tragic
that this Government has decided not to speak to us, talk to us, get into a
room on the first day of strikes, and that’s why we’re here today.”
Cullen
added that nurses were asking for the “20% that has been eroded from our
nurses’ pay over the last decade to be put back” and Health Secretary Steve
Barclay had told her she could talk about “anything but pay – that’s going to
resolve nothing. What it is going to do is to continue with days like this.”
She said
the independent pay review body was “set up by government, paid by government,
appointed by government and the parameters of the review are set by government,
so there’s nothing independent about it, and that’s why they came up with the
3% that they’ve come up with.
“There’s
nothing independent about the independent pay review body – it might be
accepted by government, it’s not accepted by the Royal College of Nursing.”
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