NHS crisis deepens as nursing union plans ‘mega strike’ in England

Doctors could join coordinated strike as Royal College of Nurses announce national ballot on mass actionEngland’s biggest nursing union is to ballot its members on whether to join a “make or break” mega-strike that would lead to mass action by nurses in every hospital trust in the country, the Observer can reveal.The move by the Royal College of Nursing to “up the ante” by holding a single national vote – rather than conducting ballots in each individual trust