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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Daniel Keane

‘Exhausted, underpaid & leaving in droves’: Why London’s nurses are voting to strike

At the height of the Covid pandemic, Amy Fancourt felt things might change. Watching the public clap for the NHS in their millions, the 29-year-old A&E nurse felt her profession might finally be on the cusp of getting the recognition it deserved.

“And then it all fizzled out after a year, like a sad birthday candle,” she said.

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