Agitation and solidarity: Nurses ensure their voices are heard on historic day on Greater Manchester's picket lines
Colleagues using food banks, newly qualified nurses leaving after a matter of months in the job, patients put in danger through chronic understaffing. It's clear nurses on the picket line this morning in the bitter cold of Withington, Ashton, and Wigan, are at the end of their tether.
Claire Carville, Kirsty Shaw, Shannon Garvey, and Rosie Edwards had just finished their nightshift at The Christie Hospital, Manchester's specialist and world-leading cancer treatment centre, when they joined the picket line with their home made signs. Rosie, 42, has been a nurse for two decades, starting in what she calls the ‘glory years’, but says conditions have deteriorated massively over recent times with understaffing a big problem.
There was a real sense of togetherness on the picket lines that the MEN visited at The Christie and Tameside Hospital. People kept warm with tea, coffee, and soup and hats and gloves were handed out for free early on to keep spirits up despite the freezing conditions. Claire added that she is 'sure there is money out there, but [the government] is just not giving it to the right people', saying she 'wouldn't be here' without Greater Manchester nurses.
Caoimhe said in her four years she’s seen at least 50 people join on her ward before dropping out within months to work in private jobs. This understaffing is leading to 'dangerous' conditions for their patients, she said. "This isn't about the money, we don't want to be striking, we're doing this for our patients," she added.
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