Responding to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said:
“A political vacuum now exists at a time when nursing staff providing care and treatment against all odds face unrelenting pressure and a workforce crisis.
“Patient care and safety is being jeopardised and a cost-of-living disaster is forcing many of those same staff to turn to food banks opened by their employers in hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
“The incredible hardship our members face is in no small part down to a decade of pay cuts.
“The new Health Secretary must rise above the mayhem and indicate his support for nursing with an immediate and substantial pay rise, already three months overdue."
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