This week on the wards has been the hardest week of my 30 years in nursing.
No staff trying to give 100 percent to their patients. Mr Hunt where are all these nurses you say we have???? Not anywhere I work thats for sure. Constant pressure from managers who are struggling to juggle the ever decreasing beds and balance the books cascaded down onto a workforce at breaking point.
Yet today in parliament there was May living on a different planet, if I hear one more time that there are more nurses and doctors under the Tories I will scream. The RCN this week released figures that suggested NHS trusts hiring 1 nurse for every 400 vacancies.
We can’t go on like this and the unions seem unable to wield any power to stop the Tories in their tracks instead they are talking about what is happening with the pay deal in step by step parrot fashion. This is where unions don’t understand nurses, nurses aren’t interested in 1 percent pay , if you said to them we will give you staff to look after your patients or the 1 percent pay rise most would opt for the nurses.
The Red Nurse 