The Daily Mirror joined nurses today on picket lines across the country. We spoke to nurses at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, the Leeds General Infirmary, St Thomas’ in central London, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
They explained why they had taken the heartbreaking decision to strike as they stood outside their place of work in bitterly cold weather.
Olga Leach-Walters, an endoscopy nurse and lead RCN rep at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, told the Mirror: “It’s overwhelming to see so many of us on strike. The public have been amazing, bringing food and hot drinks to the picket line. Nowhere else in the world are nurses treated as badly as they are in our country.
