Unite to ballot nearly 10,000 NHS workers in latest vote on strikes

Union says voting papers going out to workers in frontline patient care and essential services in England and Wales

Unite has announced that almost 10,000 of its NHS members are to be balloted in the coming days over strikes, in addition to thousands of other healthcare staff who have already been voting.

The union, which represents 100,000 workers across the NHS, said voting papers were going out across 36 NHS trusts and organisations in England and Wales.