Nurses and GPs are threatening to inflict more misery on NHS patients by launching their own strikes alongside resident doctors.
The Royal College of Nursing today said its members have voted to reject the government’s 3.6 per cent pay rise for 2025/26 in a landslide result.
More than nine in ten (91 per cent) respondents opposed the offer, with a record 170,000 staff taking part - a turnout of 56 per cent.
It is now warning it will hold a vote on industrial action if ministers fail to reach an agreement on improving pay and working conditions over the summer.
Professor Nicola Ranger, general secretary and chief executive of the RCN, said nurses feel ‘deeply undervalued’.
