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Staffing in hospitals has been a concern in recent months and there are warnings about tough months ahead, with Covid admissions and other respiratory illnesses making a comeback.

Now, due to a dispute over NHS pay, nurses will start voting on whether to take industrial action and will also deliver a petition to Downing Street.

The Royal College of Nursing are angry over the 3 per cent pay rise handed to them by government, with 92 per cent of respondents to an earlier ballot describing it as unacceptable.

Mike Travis speaks for the RCN in the North West and has been a nurse at Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital for more than 35 years.

He spoke to 大象传媒 Radio Merseyside's Paul Salt about the situation.