Striking Gloucestershire NHS staff call on hospital boss to end dispute, says UNISON

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Specialist healthcare workers at Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General hospitals are to begin a second round of strike action after trust managers failed to resolve a year-long pay dispute, says UNISON today (Monday). The 37 phlebotomists, who take vital patient blood samples, will walk out for four days this week, and five next week, over […]

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