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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Remy Greasley

Nurse joins strike after friend died 'due to staff shortages'

A nurse said she joined the picket lines today after her friend passed away due to NHS staff shortages.

Today, RCN nurses at Arrowe Park hospital in Birkenhead took to the picket lines for the second day in a row in a dispute over a 5% payrise offered to staff on Agenda for Change contracts, as well as to improve patient safety.

Donna Vyskocil, a staff nurse at the hospital, told the ECHO: "I don't know if anyone here wants to be here today, but we've come here because we're terrified for the future of the NHS.

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