General secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, Pat Cullen said nurses have been 'totally heartbroken' to get to the point of striking.
Hospital workloads are being made 'more challenging' by ongoing strike action, an NHS boss has admitted.
Rosie Edwards, 42, joined a picket line at The Christie. She added: "I wanted to be a nurse since 1984, I wrote it on a little note in school which my parents still have. "I do the best I can as an older person to support them but you just can't all the time when you end up on different wards because of a lack of staffing. I had a close friend and colleague of mine die on me during Covid, but despite all the clapping and everything during that and everything being worse now we've had no appreciation or support. I wouldn't want my grandma here now.
Doctors say demand is far outstripping capacity - there simply are not enough pairs of hands or beds to cope with the onslaught of extremely ill patients. In the region, more than 4,000 ambulance patients have been forced to wait over an hour outside A&E departments, so far this winter.
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