The first statutory ballot on industrial action across the UK in the 106-year history of the Royal College of Nursing.
Nursing staff at 176 NHS organisations have voted to take strike action over pay levels and patient safety concerns.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has been balloting its members since last month on potential strike action after a decade of real-terms pay cuts for the profession.
The most experienced frontline nurses are around £10,000 worse off a year now than in 2008.
Many of the biggest hospitals in England will see strike action by RCN members, but others narrowly missed the legal turnout thresholds to qualify for action. All NHS employers in Northern Ireland and Scotland will be included and all bar one in Wales met the relevant legal thresholds.
The full list of NHS employers that will take part in industrial action is below.
England
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
Health Education England
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Found Trust
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
NHS Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB (BSW Together)
NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB (BSol ICB)
NHS Black Country ICB
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT)
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB
NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB (Joined Up Care Derbyshire)
NHS Devon ICB (One Devon)
NHS Dorset ICB (Our Dorset)
NHS England
NHS Gloucestershire ICB (One Gloucestershire)
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB
NHS Kent and Medway ICB
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB
NHS Mid and South Essex ICB
NHS Norfolk and Waveney ICB
NHS North Central London ICB
NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB
NHS Resolution
NHS South West London ICB
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB
NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB
NHS West Yorkshire ICB
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
North Bristol NHS Trust
North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust
North of England CSU (NECS)
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
Solent NHS Trust
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
South East Coast Ambulance Service
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
South Western Ambulance Service NHS Found Trust
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Found Trust
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Found Trust
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Scotland
Healthcare Improvement Scotland
NHS 24
NHS Ayrshire and Arran
NHS Borders
NHS Dumfries and Galloway
NHS Education For Scotland
NHS Fife
NHS Forth Valley
NHS Golden Jubilee
NHS Grampian
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
NHS Highland
NHS Lanarkshire
NHS Lothian
NHS National Services Scotland
NHS Orkney
NHS Shetland
NHS Tayside
NHS Western Isles
Public Health Scotland
Scottish Ambulance Service
The Highland Council
The State Hospitals Board for Scotland
Wales
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Powys Teaching Local Health Board
Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust Headquarters
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board
Velindre NHS Trust
Public Health Wales
Health Education and Improvement Wales Health Authority
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership
Digital Health and Care Wales
Nothern Ireland
Northern Ireland Practice and Education Council
Southern Health and Social Care Trust
Western Health and Social Care Trust
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Business Services Organisation
Regulation & Quality Improvement Authority
Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service
Public Health Agency
Northern Health and Social Care Trust
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust
Northern Ireland Ambulance Service
For patients and nurses.
Responding to the news, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen said: “Anger has become action – our members are saying enough is enough. The voice of nursing in the UK is strong and I will make sure it is heard. Our members will no longer tolerate a financial knife-edge at home and a raw deal at work.
“Ministers must look in the mirror and ask how long they will put nursing staff through this. While we plan our strike action, next week’s Budget is the UK government’s opportunity to signal a new direction with serious investment. Across the country, politicians have the power to stop this now and at any point.
“This action will be as much for patients as it is for nurses. Standards are falling too low and we have strong public backing for our campaign to raise them. This winter, we are asking the public to show nursing staff you are with us.”
