“I can never remember a time when we had so many patients that we couldn’t admit,” one nurse said.
stood at their front doors every Thursday at 8 p.m., clapping and banging pots in a show of thanks to the country’s health workers. Less than three years later ontens of thousands of nurses in England are estimated to have walked off work as part of an unprecedented strike shaking the country’s much-loved but troubledof 5% above inflation — currently at 13.4% — but the government says it can’t afford it.
While his salary increased by under 2% this year — far below inflation — he and other nurses are facing a litany of rising costs. “We’re having to decide whether we can accept this patient, do we have the nurses, or do we have to send them somewhere else and that could be 100, 150 miles away to another intensive care unit,” he said.
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