NHS Confederation chief executive Matthew Taylor said he has ‘never known a period when leaders are so worried about staff morale’.
People gather in London ahead of a Support the Strikes march in solidarity with nurses, junior doctors and other NHS staff
It comes as the Royal College of Nursing is to hold a strike from 8pm on Sunday until 11.59pm on Monday evening. Health workers across the NHS have gone on strike several times in past months in disputes over pay and conditions. “There are hundreds of thousands of cancelled operations and procedures and that is why it is so vital to have a resolution to this dispute.
She told BBC Breakfast: “I hear and listen on a daily basis from our nursing staff that work within Great Ormond Street and many other hospitals, of how they have to deal and manage with those cancellations on a daily basis. They are left to actually have to break that news to patients. She said she hopes healthcare leaders are “now signalling to this Government that we need to sort nursing out otherwise patients in this country will not get a better service”.It said emergency and urgent care would remain the priority, with people asked to use other services such as pharmacies and 111 where possible.Nurses make up a quarter of NHS staff and are the biggest proportion of the health service workforce.
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