 But she was having none of it. Wagging her finger at him, she barked back: 'No, you're not trying. You need to try harder.' After Mr Sunak's hospital ward photo opportunity bombed so badly, he ducked questions about nurses' pay. But with 350,000 workers, including porters, nurses, paramedics and cleaners being balloted on strike action over a below-inflation 4% pay rise, the NHS faces a winter of walkouts. And an exclusive poll revealed 65% of people support nurses walking out – up from 60% three months ago. It also showed 79% believe there are not enough nurses to deliver safe NHS care. Unions joined in the attack on the PM over the treatment of NHS staff who, along with other Tories, he praised and applauded in the pandemic. GMB national secretary Rachel Harrison said: 'This Prime Minister is part of the same Tory admin){kind=link}
Rishi Sunak may have been hoping to enjoy his first visit as prime minister but was met with the wrath of one NHS patient who laid into him over nurses’ pay
If Rishi Sunak had any doubts over how patients feel about the Tory war on health, Catherine Poole swiftly dispelled them for him yesterday.
The 77-year-old confronted the new PM on his first visit since entering No10 Âunopposed and accused him of not paying stretched frontline staff enough.
As more savage health cuts loom after Liz Truss tanked the economy with her mini-Budget and the NHS faces Âunprecedented nursing strikes this winter, angry Catherine laid into Mr Sunak over the Tory record.
The PM asked the pensioner, who is Ârecovering from an operation at Croydon University Hospital in South London, if the nurses were looking after her.