@healthdpt Invest in nurses by ensuring there are safe staffing levels to keep patients safe. Pay them fairly for the skilled work they do, ensure they have career progression and ongoing development. Agencies can then be used for what they were designed for, filling gaps not filling rotas.
We pretend that we are beyond the days of Victorian asylums but actually this shows there has been very little progress in attitudes towards mental illness. I’m absolutely horrified. #Panorama
"My job is to keep your relative alive so they can come home to you, and you can have a quality of life. Why can't I have the same?" ICU nurse, Leanne, told @BBCHughPym today. #FairPayforNursing#Nursingisnotmyhobby
✨ the vaccine is for lessening your symptoms so you are not as sick without it and reducing how many people get hospitalised so the hospitals don’t get overcrowded and healthcare workers don’t get overworked and also lessening the chance of death, pass it on ✨
When I got a place at medical school I didn’t envisage 8 years later there being a mob in Trafalgar Square cheering the idea of hanging doctors and nurses in the midst of a pandemic.
… it’s just all a bit… fucking awful isn’t it? Like just truly absolutely vile?