Nurses have rejected their 5.5% pay award, raising the prospect of more NHS strikes. A record 145,000 Royal College of Nursing members cast a vote in the consultative ballot, with 64% refusing to accept the offer for 2024/25. It is above the inflation rate of 3.5% but staff want more, saying below-inflation pay deals under the Tories eroded their real-terms salaries by 25%. Nurses are now likely to receive a legal ballot for industrial action . In a letter to Health Secretary Wes Streeting, RCN

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