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Today, a devastating report from the @rcn.org.uk, based on the testimony of over 5000 NHS nurses, has rightly catapulted the national shame that is NHS 'corridor care' into the headlines once more. (1/15)

There is a lot wrong with this country after years of Tory?LibDem austerity … I don’t think more austerity is in anyone’s interest. (Unless you’re super rich).

We should be organising a march to Parliament about this. That and the fact that the registered nurse role has been eroded and replaced with cheaper, exploited staff. It’s wrong.

AI cant replace a SALT
AI cant replace hospital cleaners
AI cant replace meal time staff
AI cant replace housekeepers
AI cant replace psychologists
AI cant replace social workers
AI cant replace NHS workers!!

AI cant replace a nurse
AI cant replace a physio
AI cant replace a medic
AI cant replace an OT
AI cant replace a HCA
AI cant replace a midwife
AI cant replace a surgeon
AI cant replace clerical staff
AI cant replace porters
AI cant replace phlebotomists
AI cant replace dieticians

The only reason the private sector has any spare capacity (it is never cost effective to run at spare capacity) is because they have been promised NHS contracts.

Why not fix NHS pay and bring that capacity back in house?

Better for patients. Better for NHS staff. Better for the tax payer.

The private sector aren't 'helping out' the NHS

They're profiting of it's crisis, whilst leaching valuable resources away from the NHS.

Yes, agree. I would like that function too

Nursing is an incredible and rewarding career. The government must support recruitment to ensure nursing shortages do not continue.

Our calls for a loan forgiveness scheme for nursing graduates who commit to working in public services is gaining more support each day. Read more ⬇️

In the week that MPs vote on assisted dying, please - please - can we all agree & act on the fact that the time to end the woeful underfunding of NHS palliative care is now?

If we truly cared about dying people, we wouldn’t neglect their final days.

Over to you, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

MUST scores in the palliative care context. Do they tell us anything we don’t already know and what is the appropriate response? Will repeated weights cause more anxiety for the pt & family?
I’d love to hear some views please 😃

Please can I be added? Thank you!

Yes, exactly! But we have also allowed ourselves to be devalued by allowing a cheaper, less qualified, workforce to take parts of our role.
We should be providing most aspects of care in order to properly assess & monitor our pts. Not sitting at a computer writing plans of care that nobody reads.

Yes please!

I no longer work in the NHS. After over 30 years of nursing, I’m a Band 5 working for a charity, having been a Band 6 and 7 in the past.
We are better staffed than the NHS, I believe. I look after 3-5 pts each shift. However, unfortunately, nursing is desperately undervalued. How will that change?