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Radiographers in England launch 48-hour strike action as worrying numbers leave profession due to ‘burn out’
Members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) on the picket line outside the King's College Hospital in London, during a 48-hour strike in their dispute over pay. Picture date: Tuesday July 25, 2023.
RADIOGRAPHERS in England took to picket lines today to launch their 48-hour strike action as worrying numbers of staff are leaving the profession.
Members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) voted to reject a 5 per cent government pay award and called for talks to reopen after other public-sector workers, including junior doctors, were offered more.
Speaking outside the Royal Marsden Hospital in Surrey, therapeutic radiographer Ashley d’Aquino, 43, said: “We’re on strike because the government have not engaged with [SoR].
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