Nursing chief: ‘Nurse shortages are life-threatening’ | Hélène Mulholland Head of the Royal College of Nursing, Janet Davies, on how pay, staffing problems and a heavy workload are hurting the NHS
Nurses are increasingly turning to food banks and payday lenders to make ends meet as a result of years of public sector pay restraint, according to Janet Davies, new general secretary and chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). She warns that absence of “light at the end of the tunnel” on pay is leaving nurses feeling undervalued and could push some to walk away from the profession altogether. “We can’t afford for any to leave,” she says.
The nursing union says its members are accessing food banks or becoming victims of payday loans to cope Continue reading... the Guardian
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