The Guardian says nurses’ strike action has been paused so they can enter “intensive” talks with the government over pay. 

More on the suspension of the nurses’ strike from the Guardian, which describes the negotiations between the government and unions as unexpected. 

Both sides have made it clear that the first detailed pay negotiations since nurses began striking in December offer a real prospect that the growing campaign of industrial action by the RCN, and the disruption it is bringing for NHS services, could soon be at an end, the paper says.