Thousands of patients will be told tomorrow that their operations and appointments are being canceled after the latest round of talks to avert a strike by nurses failed.
Steve Barclay, the health secretary, said the government would not reopen pay talks.
Pat Cullen, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, accused him of being “belligerent” and having “too little to say” after their first face-to-face meeting in a month.
“I had to come out of this meeting with something serious to show the nurses why they shouldn’t be on strike this week. Unfortunately, they don’t get a penny extra,” she said. Her union will now go ahead with its first nationwide strike this Thursday.
After chairing a Cobra meeting on strike mitigation measures yesterday, Oliver
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