NURSES are today striking in a bid for better pay and working conditions.
Ambulance staff will also walk out – meaning it could be the biggest strike in the history of the NHS.
Nurses will walk-out over pay today[/caption]
It comes five days after the country was brought to a halt by industrial action disrupting trains, schools and the civil service.
The NHS organisations taking part in strikes today are:
Eastern
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
London
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
- St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
North West
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Found Trust
- St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
- North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Found Trust
- The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Found Trust
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
- Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
- Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
- The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Northern
- University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
- The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
- Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
- North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust
South East
- University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
- Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- South East Coast Ambulance Service
- South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
South West
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
- Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
- Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
- North Bristol NHS Trust
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
- South Western Ambulance Service NHS Found Trust
West Midlands
- Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
- The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
- Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Yorkshire and the Humber
- Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
- The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust