Question: What do you get when you mix 92,640 balloons with 1,900 waving flags, 7,000 paddles, 3,600 people blowing whistles and dishing out 273,000 stickers add 70 banners to march behind and 3,000 scarves and 140 umbrellas to keep warm and dry?
Answer: NHS Together National Day of Action on Saturday 3 March
From Cornwall to Cumbria and Birmingham to Brighton thousands of nurses, paramedics, porters, cleaners, doctors, health workers and supporters will be out in force to celebrate and defend our NHS.
NHS Together is a unique and powerful alliance of unions and health organisations dedicated to highlighting the damage being inflicted on the NHS by so-called government reforms. Following a successful national lobby last November, the group is calling for widespread public support for local events taking place across the country on Saturday 3 March.
Dave Prentis, General Secretary of UNISON said: