Nurses have taken to picket lines in the biggest day of strike action in the 75-year history of the NHS, as the ongoing row over pay and conditions continues to escalate.
The action, coordinated by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), will take place at 73 trusts in England, where up to 40,000 will strike.
More than 11,000 ambulance staff who are members of the GMB and Unite unions are also staging walkouts, hitting services across England, Wales and Northern