MORE nursing strikes are set to hit Worcestershire next month as the bitter dispute over pay and staffing continues.

The Royal College of Nursing has announced a significant escalation in strike action at more than 120 NHS employers in England in the increasingly bitter dispute over pay and staffing.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust are two of the employers which will be striking in March.

Rail workers will also stage a series of fresh strikes next month in the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, the Rail, Maritime and Transport union announced.

Royal Mail workers have also voted overwhelmingly to continue with a campaign of industrial action in a bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, the Communication Workers Union announced.