Staff shortages mean there's no difference between a strike day and normal day, nurse says 💬 “I’m a nurse, I should be with my patients but the Government has forced this on us”
“No nurse wants to make this decision, it’s been heartbreaking. This could have been stopped at any time.Tension has been mounting over the strikes after letters from the chief nurses and the NHS’s head of cancer care, which called on the RCN to protect emergency cancer treatment, were leaked.
The RCN said in response: “This is a politically-motivated smear from a Government that is failing cancer patients.Ms O’Boyle said: “We’re doing everything we can to maintain patient safety. This is the reality that we’re in: every single day patients aren’t safe. “[It’s] because we don’t have enough staff. Not because we won’t be there on Thursday, this happens every single day that our ambulances are waiting to offload patients because we do not have the beds because social care is decimated. That’s not something that’s [because] of Thursday and Tuesday, that’s been going on for a long time.Asked if she felt let down by the chief nursing officers’ letter, she said: “I think communication could have been different.
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