 Our family is sick with worry about what the future holds, but we must trust their pledge to continue with the essential treatment care that she, and those like her, so desperately need. It should never have come to this, and it cannot be allowed to get worse. The RCN has no experience of industrial action. Ministers are gearing up for a conflict on the lines of Jeremy Hunt's dispute with junior hospital doctors. Things could go very wrong, very quickly, with potentially fatal results for patients. Our unfeeling Tory rulers, who use the NHS as a political football, with){kind=link}
Paul Routledge says that unless the Tory paymasters can come up with a plan to solve NHS grievances, innocent patients could well end up dying
I owe my life to the skill and Âdedication of the doctors, nurses and support staff of Leeds General Infirmary.
Without their 10-hour, all-night operation for an aortic dissection six months ago on this date, I’d have died.
Apart from the surgeon, Mr Papaspyros, I don’t even know their names. I was away with the fairies much of the time, in intensive care.
But I do know they are worth more than the lower-than-inflation pay rise imposed on them by the Tories this year, after a decade of real-term cuts.