Comments come as Royal College of Nursing confirms UK nurses will strike for first time on 15 and 20 December
Pat Cullen, the Royal College of Nursing general secretary, told the Today programme this morning ‘“life-preserving services” and emergency care would not be covered by the RCN strikes in December. But she said exact details of what would be exempt were still being worked out. She told the programme:
What we will continue to provide is life-preserving services. And those essentially fall into emergency-type care …
We will have very, very detailed and worked-through plans that every single nurse that is taking strike action will be expected to adhere to.
Services such as oncology will be derogated or exempt from any strike action. We have a number of services that we are working through at the minute that will be derogated on the day of strike, and we will release that list soon to employers.
All of the detail is being worked through. Those services that are not considered life-preserving or emergency services will not be derogated. Those that do fall into those particular descriptions will be derogated.
Comments come as Royal College of Nursing confirms UK nurses will strike for first time on 15 and 20 DecemberPat Cullen, the Royal College of Nursing general secretary, told the Today programme this morning ‘“life-preserving services” and emergency care would not be covered by the RCN strikes in December. But she said exact details of what would be exempt were still being worked out. She told the programme:What we will continue to provide is life-preserving services. And those essentially fall into emergency-type care …We will have very, very detailed and worked-through plans that every single nurse that is taking strike action will be expected to adhere to.Services such as oncology will be derogated or exempt from any strike action. We have a number of services that we are working through at the minute that will be derogated on the day of strike, and we will release that list soon to employers.All of the detail is being worked through. Those services that are not considered life-preserving or emergency services will not be derogated. Those that do fall into those particular descriptions will be derogated. Continue reading…
