Nurses on the picket line had one goal in mind today - save the NHS. And while the Greater Manchester public loudly voiced their support through their car horns, frustration was rising on the picket lines that the government's head is 'buried in the sand'.
Both nurses and ambulance staff staged walkouts today and the country braced for widespread disruption. Nurses at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust and Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, just as they had done on two days last month.
Picket lines may not have been quite as busy today as they had been a month ago, as nurses balance getting their point across with protecting their pay, but they were still in fine voice as anger grows at a government apparently unwilling to talk. Kat Sanderson, a nurse of 20-years leading the picket line at Tameside General hospital, said: "They've just completely buried their head in the sand.
