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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kevin Rawlinson and agency

UK nurses’ leader says politicians only made modest progress with pay and staffing

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) general secretary Pat Cullen
Royal College of Nursing (RCN) general secretary Pat Cullen on the picket line outside Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA

Politicians did only enough to save their own skins during strikes by nurses, a union leader has claimed, meaning there was just modest progress in NHS pay and staffing in 2023.

Pat Cullen, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said Westminster stopped well short of the “revolution needed”.

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