Health Secretary Steve Barclay has been confronted by the furious mother of a sick child bumped down a waiting list, over NHS staff 'being worked to the bone'
Sarah Pinnington-Auld said her three-year-old daughter Lucy, who has cystic fibrosis, was pushed off the "absolutely horrific" waiting list at King's College Hospital in Denmark Hill, south-east London because of "the obscene number of people who came through and the lack of resources".
It comes between two nurses strikes, last Thursday and on Tuesday, in the first industrial action held by the Royal College of Nursing for more than 100 years, after pay talks broke down. The NHS currently has 47,000 vacancies for nurses, and many have complained of burnout after the Covid-19 pandemic.
But Prime Minister Rishi Sunak refused to boost nurses' pay, despite the strikes Tory pressure and unions warning of even more chaos in the weeks ahead.The Prime Minister insisted the government's four per cent pay offer is both "appropriate and fair".
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