With the health service under pressure and nurses going on strike today, these new nursing graduates from QUBelfast are preparing for their careers at a turbulent time. Read more about the strikes here:
Nurses across Northern Ireland are joining colleagues in England and Wales in a 12-hour strike,Emergency and urgent care will continue to be provided by staff but planned surgery will be disrupted from 08:00.
Outpatient appointments and community nursing have been postponed. There will also be fewer nurses available on non-urgent wards.'We did not create waiting lists'joined by nurses across England and Wales in what is considered the biggest industrial action in the NHS's historySpeaking from outside Antrim Area Hospital Denise Kelly, who has been a nurse for 30 years, said she believed nurses had public support, despite the disruption for patients.
"Every ED, every ward, there's breaches, there are no beds, there's no patients being able to be discharged to create beds.BBC NI South West reporter, Julian Fowler, said staff at SWAH were dealing with freezing temperatures on the picket line.The Western Health Trust confirmed that 587 outpatient appointments across its sites have been postponed because of the strike.
The nurses' strike comes three days after health sector workers from three of Northern Ireland's biggest unionsRush-hour drivers in Belfast are sounding their horns in support as they drive past the City Hospital, where nurses have a picket line beside a busy commuter road.
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