The UK health service is “buckling”, with the number of flu cases across English hospitals rising seven-fold in only a month.

Rishi Sunak's government is not willing to negotiate with the strikers and it is a dangerous policy for the UK government, an analyst says.

Some of the tens of thousands of UK nurses have walked out from their jobs demanding better pay and conditions.

In their biggest-ever strike action, thousands of nurses in the United Kingdom are set to stage strikes on December 15 and 20, joining other workers in the country who are taking industrial action over pay.

The British Nurses Union, representing hundreds of thousands of nurses in the United Kingdom, has voted to hold the first nationwide strike in the union's 106-year history to demand fair pay and safe staffing.

British nurses have voted for the first time to go on industrial action before Christmas, as increase in the inflation rate has plunged many Brits into dire economic straits.