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Tuesday 22 June 2010

Nurses will not take this lying down - James Anthony‏

UNISON NEC member James Anthony asks “what have we done to deserve these attacks?” in an article on the Guardian’s comment is free website.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/22/nurses-nhs-ringfenced?

“As a nurse, I hope that my job remains fairly secure. Student nurses will be struggling to find work in the face of hiring freezes. Many will be lost from the profession forever, with hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of training thrown away with them. That will mean me working alongside fewer and fewer staff (and it rarely feels like enough now), with the patients I look after getting a poorer and poorer standard of care.”