The Latest Breaking News on Forcing medical staff to work during strikes could harm care, NHS Providers says

Workers will now walk out for three days between December 21 and 23 and between December 28 and 31 and this will impact beer supplies to pubs, including IPA, Old Speckled Hen, and Abbot Ale

Take a look at the Nottinghamian newsletter from Tuesday, December 20

Industrial action by emergency service personnel biggest of its kind for 30 years

For those taking to the picket lines in Liverpool again today, this is an existential battle for the health service we all hold dear

Some 750 military personnel drafted in to cover emergency calls

The British government says it will not offer more money to nurses and ambulance crews to end strikes that are piling pressure on an already overstretched health system

A word of advice: try not to fall sick this week. Nurses in about a quarter of hospitals and community teams in England, including four in London, are walking out again in a long-running dispute over pay. Tomorrow, ambulance staff in England and Wales will walk out too

Ambulance crews in England and Wales are set to walk out on December 21 and 28

Nurses are staging a second walkout in four London hospitals in a row over pay as a series of strikes hits the UK in the run-up to Christmas. Around a quarter of hospitals and community teams in England are taking part in the strike, alongside all trusts in Northern Ireland…