A mum is struggling to pay for bills, debt and childcare while working full-time as a nurse.
The 37-year-old old, who asked not to be named, qualified as a nurse in 2021 after working in covid wards during her third year of studies. She felt "privileged to hold that hand and be that last voice they heard" when families weren't allowed to visit, and when many healthcare workers had moved out of their own homes to protect their own families from the virus.
She told the ECHO: "That made people unite a lot more and your work family became even more solid because you had to support your colleagues as well as your patients. I try to forget about it because there are so many traumatic memories along the way, and I think that's what you're seeing now - we've had enough and we can't endure physically or mentally anymore."
