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21
Jan 2023
Nurses and ambulance workers set to strike in Harrogate on same day
Nurses and ambulance workers in the Harrogate district are set to strike on the same day in just over two weeks' time.
Picket lines could be organised within yards of each other on Lancaster Park Road in Harrogate, where the hospital and the ambulance station are both located.
Unless strikes are averted, the Royal College of Nursing plans to carry out two days of industrial action on February 6 and 7.
Unite has scheduled another ambulance strike in Harrogate on February 6.
Ambulance workers striking in Harrogate this year.
There is also the prospect of schools being affected on February 1, when members of the National Education Union plan to strike before staging further walk-outs in February and March. A union official has predicted some schools will have to close.
Sandy Lay, a nurse at Harrogate District Hospital and a Liberal Democrat councillor representing Otley and Yeadon on Leeds City Council, told a full council meeting on Wednesday the government rather than striking nurses were harming patients.
But he added arrangement for patient care were often better on strike days than non-strike days because minimum service levels were in place,
He said:
Hospital: 'regrettable some services have been affected'
Asked what impact this week's strikes had had on the hospital, and whether it would amend its plans for future strikes, a spokesman for Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust said:
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