Nurses strikes on 15th and 20th of December: 100,000 staff have voted for industrial action

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Royal College of Nursing has confirmed: one hundred thousand nursing staff are set to go on strike this month, the RCN has released the list of trusts impacted by the historic action, with 44 out of 219 NHS trusts in England voting in favour of walkouts.

Wales (staff in six out of seven health boards) and Northern Ireland (all six trusts) will face strike action too.

The union is set to hold its first strike day on Thursday, 15 December and its second on Tuesday 20 December.

Workers have until the day of the strike to decide whether they not work and will join the industrial action.

NHS trusts across England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be negotiating in the week ahead over staffing levels with union reps over which services they can maintain.

Full list of trusts facing strikes in December:

England

· Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

· Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

· Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

· Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

· Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

· Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

· Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

· Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

· Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

· Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

· Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust

· Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

· Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

· Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

· Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Found Trust

· Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

· Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust

· Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

· The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Found Trust

· The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

· Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

· Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

· The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

· Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

· Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

· Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

· Devon Partnership NHS Trust

· Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

· Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

· Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

· North Bristol NHS Trust

· Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

· Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

· Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

· University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

· University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

· Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

· Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS

· The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

· West Midlands University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

· Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

· Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

· Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust

· The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Wales

· Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

· Powys Teaching Local Health Board

· Hywel Dda University Health Board

· Swansea Bay University Health Board

· Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

· Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board

Northern Ireland

· Southern Health and Social Care Trust

· Western Health and Social Care Trust

· Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

· Northern Health and Social Care Trust