Major disruption is likely as ministers warn the public to avoid contact sports and take extra care.
have become a regular occurrence, as have queues of ambulances outside A&E waiting to offload patients.
Ambulance workers are asking for a pay rise above inflation - although not a precise figure - and a plan for recouping lost earnings over many years. Negotiations lie "squarely with the government who have simply got their hands over their ears". They have the "clear ability to pay if they make different choices", she told the BBC.Mr Barclay called the strikes "deeply regrettable" and urged the public to take extra care and check in on vulnerable friends, family and neighbours.
NHS England says it will have more staff answering 999 calls and is helping individual trusts speed up the process of handing over emergency patients and discharging those well enough to go home. If there are not enough ambulances to get to all life-threatening emergencies, staff will leave the picket line to respond, the head of the service, Daniel Elkeles, said.
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