ISN’T IT TIME WE LOOKED AFTER OUR NURSES?
50,000 The number of nurses the government has pledged to add to the NHS by 2024/25.
When the UK was plunged into lockdown for the first time on 23 March 2020, we faced a reality we could never have imagined. But while many of us were able to shelter from the virus, nurses put their own lives at risk to save others.
Two years on, the pressures and working conditions are taking their toll - 57% of nurses are thinking about or actively planning on leaving the profession, according to a survey by the Royal College of
