💬 Nurses on the picket line said they will keep striking until their pay improves after Rishi Sunak appeared to rule out a better offer this financial year
High vacancies means the number of patients cared for by each nurse is increasing. The recommended number is one nurse to four patients, but that has increased to six or more, Mr Sapinto said.they sometimes had to look after nine patients alone and that staff were thrown into different units each shift to fill the gaps.
Staffing levels were so depleted there was no difference between a strike day and a normal day at work, he added., 10,000 workers were absent in England alone, with 16,000 appointments and surgeries rescheduled due to the walkout. Mr Sunak also maintained that the Government has been “fair and reasonable” when it comes to the strikes.
“I’m going to do what I think is right for the long-term interests of the country: combating inflation,” he told theBut A&E nurse Lauren, who asked not to give her surname, said the Government was “starving” the workforce of what it needed to keep goin, with more and more patients arriving in A&E, without the staffing support to address the need.
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