{"id":20221,"date":"2022-12-20T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/12\/20\/steven-barclay-on-nhs-strikes-we-are-happy-to-talk\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:00:16","slug":"steven-barclay-on-nhs-strikes-we-are-happy-to-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=20221","title":{"rendered":"Steven Barclay on NHS strikes: We are happy to talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The health secretary has said he will meet three trade unions on Tuesday, ahead of Wednesday\u2019s planned strike by ambulance workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Steve Barclay said there needed to be a &#8220;focus of patients&#8221; and a drive to cut waiting lists, and added: &#8220;We recognise that pay matters.. but it&#8217;s not just about pay\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-64037440\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Strike: What will ambulances respond to on Wednesday?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-64040505?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The health secretary has said he will meet three trade unions on Tuesday, ahead of Wednesday\u2019s planned strike by ambulance workers. Steve Barclay said there needed to be a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}