BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

Hello, it's a newscast news flash we're starting with because at T-Time on Friday, the Royal

College of Nursing announced that their members had rejected the pay offer from the government

for at nurses pay in England. A turnout of 61%, 54% of their members voted to reject the

deal, 46% voted to accept. So actually that is pretty close and it now means there's going

to be more strike action by members of the Royal College of Nursing. But over at Unison,

the other union that represents nurses, many fewer of them though, they overwhelmingly accepted

the deal. So they have ended their dispute with the government. The other dispute in the NHS

in England at the moment is with junior doctors. They've been on strike for four days,

that comes to an end in the early hours of Saturday morning. At the start of it, we had a BBC

regional roundup by speaking to some of our colleagues who cover health in different parts of

England. So we thought we'd have a catch up with one of them, it's Nikki Fox, who's the health

correspondent in the east of England. Hi Adam, well the focus here today is very much being on a group

of junior doctors in North East Cambridgeshire and they physically went to the constituency office

of the health secretary Steve Barkley to hand in a letter demanding that he take part in talk to

them. It's unknown or not whether he was there at the time, but he has stated once again on Twitter

that a 35% pay increase is unaffordable. Because this area of England has such a large coastline,

an influx of tourists for these de holidays has put pressure on A&E services, but in Suffolk,

for instance, they've brought in a small group of GPs from 30 minutes away to work on the wards.

And another medical director in Cambridgeshire told me because they've got senior consultants

to hand their accident and emergency performance has actually still been quite good, but it's

the longer term impact on operations that they're worried about. Consultants have worked overnight

...