Second day of nursing strikes hit Greater Manchester with pickets outside major cancer centre
Greater Manchester is being hit by a second day nursing strikes as tens of thousands of NHS staff walk out over pay across two days this week .
READ MORE: The powerful moment a terminal cancer patient came out to support the striking nurses who 'kept her alive' The first day of strikes yesterday saw moving images of one terminal cancer patient join the picket line outside The Christie Hospital, Manchester's world-leading cancer treatment centre, to support the nurses' calls for better pay. General secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, Pat Cullen, was also among those to join the Greater Manchester strikes.
"So this government needs to get off the rose-tinted glasses, stop the clapping on doorsteps and start to value nurses by actually paying them a decent wage and sorting out this crisis." "But it's the opposite now. Young people join and they're given so much responsibility in an environment where people are dying on them and they're wanting to leave after six months because they're having a breakdown. 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.
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