Back the Nurses, Save the NHS
Years of attacks on terms and conditions have pushed nurses to the brink — and now, they’re striking not only for fair pay but to protect the NHS for future generations.
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Illustration by Jan Robert Dünnweller
In 1990, Helen O’Connor came over from Ireland to train as a nurse at Whittington Hospital in North London. ‘In those days, you had decent pay, subsidised canteens, and subsidised accommodation,’ she explains. It was a great career. You could move up the grades, earn money to get a mortgage and buy a house. If […]