NHS strike action is set to go ahead after unions were left disappointed by crunch government talks.
Ahead of the summit talks, the PM, Rishi Sunak, didn't deny that the government could offer a one-off payment to public sector workers to help with the cost of living.
Paramedics striking on a picket line outside Ashford NHS South East Coast Ambulance Services Make Ready Centre run by Churchill Group on the 21st of December 2022. .Other union representatives were slightly more positive following the meetings, with Unison's head of health Sara Gorton saying there had been some progress.
She said: "It was a very civil meeting. We did actually manage to talk about pay. We didn't get the tangible concessions that we might have hoped or that would enable us to call off the strikes later this week and next. Ambulance workers, paramedics and call handlers from the London Ambulance Services are seen holding banners and placards expressing their opinion in front of a camp fire while on strike outside their base at Waterloo in London, 21 Dec 2022."We will certainly do that but we didn't get the tangible outcome that we were hoping for."
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