"How can we train inexperienced nurses in such a complex environment when we are used to fill gaps on a daily basis? It causes huge anxiety and frustration.”
More than 100 staff at Manchester’s Christie NHS Foundation Trust, which runs The Christie Hospital, will strike for 24 hours from 7am tomorrow (March 2) over pay and working conditions - and they are sharing frank testimony about pressures on the frontline.
Members of the Unite union at Christie NHS Foundation Trust, a world-leading specialist cancer treatment hospital in Manchester, include intensive care unit (ICU) nurses, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) clinical scientists and estates staff. The hospital staff turnover rate is 17 per cent and Unite reports that members in all departments say there are staffing shortages, leading to impacts on services and unsustainable workloads.
