Ministers passing the buck to NHS strikers are exposing the blood on their hands ✒️ Failure to sort the winter strikes sends a message that public services really are broken under the Conservatives 🔵 paulwaugh for ipaperviews
that “ambulance unions have taken a conscious choice to inflict harm on patients”.
Yet this smacked of spin too. While the RCN did indeed agree to national “derogations” to allow cancer surgery, chemotherapy and dialysis, those don’t normally involve 999 calls. Moreover, the RCN made plain that the bulk of its derogations were agreed between itsIn fact, Unison has been working for weeks at local level with NHS trusts to allow them to plan for the strike.
Yet on the NHS, the Government seems not to have learned the lesson that the key to strikes is to get a swift deal that avoids or minimises disruption, rather than embark on a long war of attrition that saps morale on all sides. Governments often have to make concessions or U-turns, but the longer it takes to carry them out the greater the political capital is used up each time. If a deal is struck this year or next, patients will ask: why didn’t you sort that earlier and avoid all this mess? Weak ministerial lines-to-take on the media don’t sort strikes, grown up negotiations do.
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