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Nursing staff demand answers from PM hopefuls
Members of the Royal College of Nursing are using social media to raise key nursing concerns with the candidates hoping to become the UK’s next Prime Minister.
Tweeting Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, nurses are highlighting the nearly 40,000 nursing vacancies in England, as well as thousands more across social care and public health throughout the UK, demanding the candidates commit to taking urgent action to protect patient safety by resolving uncertainty surrounding Brexit and ending the workforce crisis.
The RCN’s chief executive, Dame Donna Kinnair, has also written to both candidates asking them to commit to substantially investing in and supporting the nursing profession and patient care, saying that funding ‘supports good health outcomes for our population’ and that ‘it is reasonable for this to be the starting position of any decisions being considered by government’.
Kinnair used the letter to also call for policy interventions to be prioritised as a matter of urgency in the following areas: staffing for safe and effective care; nursing education and careers; the immigration system; and Brexit and the implications for patient care.
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