Hospital nurses told their 'lives would be made hell' if they complained over conditions on a coronavirus ward, union claims
Unison says they have raised a grievance for 36 Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust staff
Unison has raised a group grievance for 36 employees, most of them nurses, at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. It claimed they were not given any specialist training or counselling for dealing with dying patients and their grieving relatives."Normally, the palliative care team who deal with end-of-life patients handle 200 deaths each year - we dealt with 185 in just 10 weeks," they said.
Dave Ratchford, from Unison, said staff were unprepared for dealing with such high frequency of death and should have had access to psychological support.Another worker said a board with everyone's record of sickness was put on display in a break room to intimidate staff."We're talking about a very high-performing team who fell foul of a culture that permits bullying and fails to address it.
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