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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Patrick Edrich

'No respect for us': Nurses challenge government in battle to 'sustain NHS future'

"Covid killed off a lot of nurses - physically and metaphorically."

Those were the devastating words of Bernadette Kearney - a nurse who recently took early retirement because she felt "burnt out". Bernadette spoke to the ECHO from Liverpool Women's Hospital on the second day of industrial action by members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).

Tens of thousands of nurses are currently on strike in the biggest walkout by NHS staff this country has seen. Union members from all hospital trusts in the city have walked out with large picket lines seen at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Alder Hey Children's Hospital and Aintree University Hospital.

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