Patients warned as nurses in the East Midlands resume strike action

Hundreds of nurses across the East Midlands will head to the picket lines today to continue striking over pay and working conditions.

Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) went out on strike for the first time in history last month.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has also announced that two more, bigger strikes will be held next month in England and Wales on February 6 and February 7.

See a breakdown of where nurses will be striking:

East Midlands

NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB (Joined Up Care Derbyshire) - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Eastern

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

NHS Mid and South Essex ICB - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

NHS Norfolk and Waveney ICB - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

London

Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust - 19 Jan (one day only)

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

NHS South West London ICB - No picket line. Members at this employer should still strike by not attending work.

North West

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Northern

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

North of England CSU (NECS) - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

South East

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

NHS Kent and Medway ICB - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Solent NHS Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

South West

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

NHS Dorset ICB (Our Dorset) - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

West Midlands

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

NHS Black Country ICB - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Midlands and Lancashire CSU - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Yorkshire & Humber

Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

Sheffield Childrens NHS Foundation Trust - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

NHS West Yorkshire ICB - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

National employers

NHS Resolution

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) - 18 Jan / 19 Jan

'Patient care is suffering like never before'

RCN chief executive Pat Cullen said on Monday: "It is with a heavy heart that nursing staff are striking this week and again in three weeks. Rather than negotiate, (Prime Minister) Rishi Sunak has chosen strike action again.

"We are doing this in a desperate bid to get him and ministers to rescue the NHS.

"The only credible solution is to address the tens of thousands of unfilled jobs - patient care is suffering like never before.

"My olive branch to Government - asking them to meet me halfway and begin negotiations - is still there. They should grab it."

The RCN has been calling for a pay rise at 5% above inflation, though it has said it will accept a lower offer.

Inflation was running at 7.5% when it submitted the 5% figure to the independent pay review body in March - But inflation has since soared, with RPI standing at 14.2% in September.

"This is not something we want to do, but the government have dug their heals in"

Ian Graham is a spokesperson for the RCN in the East Midlands and says:

"The government talk about winter pressures. We don't have those winter pressures, we have all year pressures.

"You walk past any A&E department, you see ambulances lined up waiting to admit patients. I've seen hospitals where they've put waiting areas outside for people to sit and wait. It's not acceptable".

On Monday, the Prime Minister's official spokesman said: "Obviously we would continue to urge unions to step back from strike action, which will have an impact on patient care.

"We know in the first round of strikes 11,000 appointments were cancelled. So it's inevitable that this, on a larger scale, will have a larger impact and that is hugely regrettable at a time when the health service is under significant pressure.

"We feel like there have been constructive talks with the unions and we'd want those to continue rather than taking to the picket lines."

NHS England said patients should use services "wisely" by going to NHS 111 online but continuing to call 999 in a life-threatening emergency.

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