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The battle to save our health service has reached a whole new level
With NHS workers overwhelmingly rejecting the government’s measly 3% pay offer, HELEN O’CONNOR believes it's crunch time for health unions, campaign groups and all who value the service

THE pandemic has changed the mindset of NHS staff, including nurses, and this is clear from the results of both the Royal College of Nursing and the GMB indicative ballots on the 3 per cent pay offer.  

The idea that “nurses won’t ever strike because they care too much about patients” won’t hold water in the coming period. 

In fact it’s the nurses who genuinely care about patients and preserving the quality of NHS services who will devote additional time to building for militant industrial action within their trade unions.  

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