THOUSANDS of nurses strike across England | 'Nurses have EVERY reason to complain'

'It's not just about the money aspect. It's about patient safety and the fact we're responsible for a lot of lives.'

NHS paediatric nurse Olivia Princewill says nurses 'have every reason to complain' as staff across over 55 NHS trusts take strike action today and tomorrow.

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[topbetterfact]

Stop wasting money on Ukraine. Help the NHS staff.

[Terence-zbcb]

Don't tell me these so called nurses care laughing and smiling didn't look like struggling to live murders

[wendyg]

The number of nurses doctors and health care workers who have DIED after taking these jabz is uncountable.. just enormous

[bonnyvonny]

Just watching the news as a nurse is telling us how hard life is for nurses while her colleagues behind her are laughing and joking and having the best fun, if you don't like your job get another one

[robertfarrow]

Every patient in a National Health Hospital, has horror stories of these Teletubbies, who sit gossiping at the computer desks. My dog got better care at the vets. Overeducated sadists

[ruthcollins]

The nurses got payment increases when everyone else either didn't; lost their jobs; got the 80% furlough salaries or died. To spend a lot of time on Covid, blocking relatives and family members saying goodbye to those dying; concentrating on Covid HS and not OTHER emergency health issues to now strike disgusts me. Having worked in NHS, got MRSA in one, I saw many staff members standing around the centre of the block NOT caring for patients. My last experience when I broke my ankle & leg due to a bus driver's fault, the hospital that dealt with me - THE most KNOWN ONE TO DEAL WITH BONE FRACTURES, was disgusting. "Too many chiefs & not enough Indians" as the expression goes. I was glad to get out of there alive!

[hissingsidll]

AVERAGE UK PAY £27, 700
AVERAGE NURSES PAY £33, 300
NOW GET BACK TO WORK

[margaretedwards]

I don't think theuniversitucputse is working. This results in too many chiefs and not enough indians
Going back to on the job training, I putting to be taught into practice
There is always an opportunity to progress and go on to university for anyone who wishes and is able to
I feel this will assist in the recruitment and retention of nurses

[gavinhartley]

These public sector workers should try working in the private sector for a while. Lower pay, little or no pension, no perks. I've had a 2.5% payrise this year. They should suck up the rise in the cost of living for a while. No need to be smoking, no need to have an Audi on finance like a mortgage, no need for Sky TV. Plenty of ways to save money so you can still afford the necessities in life and have some left over for a few treats like a takeaway once in a while and a glass of whatever at the weekend. If all these people get these crazy pay rises, what do they think will happen to inflation? It'll continue to go up and then we enter a spiral- higher costs- payrise, higher costs-payrise. Tighten the belts for a while, only buy what you have to, only drive where you have to and watch the prices come down.

[sallyrobbertse]

Would you want to be treated by a nurse that is so useless at managing an above average wage, they 'need' to use a foodbank?

[S-North]

The 'oxymoron' of stating they have the 'patients care at heart' while preparing to strike, for a 'pay rise', therefore neglecting vital patient care.
Let's not forget that these workers had a 2 year holiday, on full pay, during the lockdowns.

[hunk]

All brits I want one question, where all the looted money from world, almost, I think around 90 trillion where it went? 😱😱😱😱
U don't hv money to pay nurses ?😂

[colin]

Greedy public service workers they get more a day than I get a week