Nurses are relying on food banks to feed their families, according to a former prime minister. Gordon Brown has called for an end to “food-bank Britain”, after he spoke out about the health workers having to queue up for food parcels after finishing their shifts.
He told a nurses’ conference that a number of health trusts have set up food banks within hospitals to provide food parcels for nurses and health workers, with more planned. “Thousands of nurses report that, because of the cost-of-living crisis, they are skipping meals so they can feed their children,” he told the Royal College of Nursing annual congress in Glasgow.
“I want an end to food-bank Britain by an end to poverty and low-pay Britain. This is not a party political issue but a humanitarian issue. A matter of common decency.
