In March, a long-simmering discontent among accident and emergency (A&E) personnel in French hospitals, who complain of under-staffing, patient over-crowding, inadequate equipment and poor wages, spilled over into strike action at more than 60 hospitals across France. The dispute has grown significantly over the summer months, and this week, a collective body representing A&E nursing staff involved in the movement, Inter-Urgences, announced that 217 A&E services had joined the strike action, representing around a third of all A&E services in French public hospitals (the French health ministry’s own count, announced last week, is 195 hospitals affected).
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