THE DISPUTE that has disrupted Wirral Hospital NHS Trust may be one step closer to being resolved.

Management and unions held talks on Monday after which the three unions agreed to put the new deal to workers at series mass meetings due to start next Sunday. A ballot to officially call off the strike will take place on January 17.

Members of the TGWU, Unison and GMB at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals were all involved in the dispute.