BREAKING: Nationwide ambulance strikes have been called off after government officials agreed to reopen pay talks with unions.
Nationwide ambulance strikes have been called off after government officials agreed to reopen pay talks with unions.
The Department for Health and Social Care had for months refused to go ahead with an improved pay deal amid a cost-of-living crisis, severe staff shortages and record waits for patient care. Ambulance drivers, dispatchers and emergency medical personnel have walked out several times over pay and declining workplace conditions More than 13,000 ambulance workers had been set to walk out on Monday and March 20.
‘Less than 24 hours later we received a letter from the Secretary of State for Health, Steve Barclay, inviting us and other unions to pay talks.
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