• Nurses are struggling – our strike has been a long time coming

    A nurse explains why he will be striking over pay, understaffing and the future of the NHSAfter the Royal College of Nursing announced that its members would strike for the first time over the fortnight before Christmas, Matt Smith, an advanced nurse practitioner in a children’s intensive care unit in London, shares why he is planning to stop work.I never thought as a nurse I would go on strike, but the mistreatment of the UK’s healthcare workers over the last decade means this is no

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