Siobhan
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Nurse, Activist, Socialist Campaigner for pay restoration & better conditions for NHS workers. Trade Unionist. All my socials:
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You couldn't make this up
First the government try to kill us with incorrect PPE
Then they clap us as heroes
But they won't give us fair pay
But they will give us the George Cross
And now they want to take us to court or strike us off for fighting back
Thanks Tories
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I've seen several threads in the past few days on ways to save energy
Heres my best tip
Dont vote for a government that would happily freeze us all to death
#CostOfLivingCrisis
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Precisely
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Don't tell me there's not a staffing crisis in the NHS
Yesterday I looked after 17 patients on 2 different wards
WE NEED MORE NURSES!
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Shout out to all my NHS colleagues who like the rest of our emergency services will be working through the bank holiday
💪✊️
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Imagine, you're a student Nurse in England
You work 37.5 hrs a week in the NHS risking your life to nurse Coronavirus patients for less than £3/ph
On top of that you have to pay parking charges upfront
This isn't a story, this is reality
Support student nurses
Pls 🔄
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A sleeping giant has awoken with the rejuvenation of the Trade Union movement
Firefighters are coming out in support of NHS workers, teachers for railworkers, communications workers for teachers.
It's glorious and the government should be afraid
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Last night my 16 yr old daughter took unwell with what we suspect is appendicitis
I called 111-recorded message telling me minimum 90 min wait
I didn't bother calling an ambulance based on my own experience last year I knew they wouldn't send one
So we drove her ourselves
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"The NHS can't take anymore"
NO! Junior Doctors can't take any more
Nurses can't take any more
Paramedics can't take any more
We are the NHS and you are losing us due to pay & conditions
Fix it, negotiate
#juniordoctorsstrike
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What?! I have no words
Nadhim Zahawi not only lies about Nurses starting salary but also declares that Nurses should accept less as a message to Putin that we’re standing together. 😳 MPs have had 28% pay rise in just 7 years. £18k. 😠
#NursesPayRiseNow
#ToryScum
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You think things are bad now?
Struggling to pay for petrol, struggling to buy food, struggling to heat your home
How bad will it be when they take away your healthcare?
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I am grateful to the staff who are caring for her, I imagine what things could look like in a well funded, well staffed system.
Our story could have been a lot worse others people's stories are
We need change!
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My Mother is a Nursing Assistant
My Sister is a Nurse
I am a Nurse
We will stand on a picket line together, proudly, as a family if that what it takes
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⚠️No GP appointments
⚠️Ambulances stuck outside A&E for hours instead of responding to calls
⚠️Huge waits for specialist appointments
⚠️Nurses caring for entire wards alone
⚠️Ever increasing wait lists for operations
This government have destroyed our health service through
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Rishi Sunak is right, there is a problem with sickness in Britain and I agree it's time we addressed it!
A festering sickness within our government and the way it views the people I very often look after.
Vulnerable people who dread the DWP letters dropping through their
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With RCN strike dates confirmed for December the most common question I'm being asked is:
How can I support striking nurses?
Here are 5 practical ways you can help the cause
A (smallish) thread 🧵
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I feel this really needs to be said if you are a health professional posing in pictures with the Health Secretary or for any Tory photo op you're a disgrace.
This government sent us like lambs to the slaughter in the Pandemic, yet you stand in a picture with them?
Hell no!
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It's
#socialistsunday
Many of our community know me already,I'm an NHS Nurse fighting 2 years now for fair pay for NHS workers. Now we are on the brink of strike we need as much help as we can get to spread the word & pass ballots
Please consider following to support ✊️🙏
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In that case can I please ask for this very reasonable amount for myself and my fellow NHS workers as its not a huge ask...
🚨 NEW: Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said £100,000 is "not a huge salary" for people
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@BBCNews
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If nurse training was actually paid for in full this might be a discussion but in England nurses qualify with Tens of thousands of educational debt.
On qualification they owe the NHS nothing. Especially when they give hundreds of hours of free labour to the NHS!
𝗡𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 ‘𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗱𝘂𝗲𝘀’ 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗛𝗦. Tory MP Sir Christopher Chope claims that nurses are trained at "great public expense".
Read more ➡️
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If you are homeless Britain will give you a tent
If you are hungry Britain will send you to a food bank
If you are suicidal Britain will tell you to call charities such as the samaritans
Sorry can someone remind me what we pay our taxes for
Oh yeah nuclear weapons.....
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Happy
#followbackfriday
Last Friday I had an operation on the NHS that would cost £5000.
I am part of a network of NHS workers who fight to retain free healthcare for all so you never need to know what an operation cost
If thats for you follow me if you already do pls🔄
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It's my Birthday and traditionally I ask for a retweet to get my account out there
I'm Siobhan, I'm an NHS nurse and trade unionist who has been actively campaigning on NHS pay and against privatisation since 2020. Nurse for a decade.
If that's for you, please give me a follow
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Last week I stood at the
@RMTunion
Euston picket line as I'd seen the media try to convince the public nurses weren't in support of rail staff.
Today I see this video from Eddie Dempsey, it made my day to hear him say that rail workers are with us ✊️
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I've seen many angry remarks about nursing strikes. The fact is I'm pro workers rights be that nurses, posties, factory workers. The workforce has rarely made a stand on this scale & we shouldn't apologise for defending our employment rights. Purely my personal opinion
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Rishi wants to focus on Math in his speech as statistics underpin many jobs.
Here's a few stats then:
▶️Nursing vacancies across UK 50k
▶️General vacancies in the NHS around 150k
▶️Bed cuts in the past decade 8.3%
▶️Amount of Tory PMs unfit to lead the UK this past year, 3
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It's my birthday today, and on my birthday I could wish for a number of seemingly impossible things
Like NHS staff canteens as good as the one our MPs have
Or showing up to work with enough staff on shift to look after patients the way they deserve
Or for the government to
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Im a nurse who strongly believes that healthcare for all regardless of income is something that is at risk and worth fighting to retain
Privatisation doesnt work
Just look at the energy crisis
If you believe that too lets follow eachother
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I can honestly say today is one of the toughest shifts I have had in over 3 years
#nurselife
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Imagine you need medical treatment, let's say you're insured but your claim gets turned down. What now?
We don't want this in the UK
This is why I am & always will be a socialist, healthcare is a human right
Are you with me? Then follow me!
#SocialistSunday
#NHSSOS
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At the height of the Pandemic in the NHS we fought to have our PPE upgraded,other countries issued staff with FFP3 whilst in the UK we were treated like cannon fodder
The anger in the workforce did not go away instead we have channelled it & it will fuel us in the months ahead!
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Do you know what it feels like to be afraid to cuddle your children because you spent all day nursing covid patients?
I do
I will be there for you if you ever need me, please be there for me & my colleagues 🙏
#ThunderclapForCarers
#nhspay15
#Covid19UK
@BootstrapCook
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Imagine you need medical treatment, let's say you're insured but if you pay your deductible you are going to struggle to eat
This is why I am & always will be a socialist, healthcare free at the point of need is a human right
Are you with me? Then follow me!
#SocialistSunday
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So, the government is seriously considering cutting training time for nurses in a bid to boost staffing in the NHS
I find this gravely concerning. Training is currently in need of an overhaul as nurses are often too understaffed on wards and in community to support student
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She lay howling in pain for the entire A&E waiting room to hear for around half an hour when she was triaged she was taken straight through. I'm a trained nurse I felt powerless
No beds in the hospital so she stayed down in A&E overnight
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Has the NHS ever saved your life?
It has saved mine & I will fight to keep that safety net for my childrens generation
With vacancies expected to rise to 250,000 by 2030 now is the time to invest in retaining staff before our public health service is no longer viable
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Honestly it's a bloody disgrace that people are having to debate using heating when it's -2 in the UK
Exactly what are our elected representatives doing to end the energy crisis?!
#freezinguk
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As nurses we are predominantly mentioned in the recent union action but I want to be clear I support pay restoration for EVERY NHS worker
Porters, HCSW, Admin, OT's Physios, Doctors,Paramedics Radiographers, not enough room to list us all
We all run your NHS, we all matter!
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A little dismayed at the comments from people asking me why I live on a council estate
Why shouldn't I?
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The last shift I worked we heard of a colleagues death from Covid
They were just weeks away from retirement
That level of sacrifice has been made up and down the country
Never forget!
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Inside Big Ben there is a prison room
It was used for MPs who breached their code of conduct, last officially used in 1880
I think its big enough to hold at least Matt Hancock & Boris Johnson ...
Just saying
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@parapism
Elfred thank you for these questions. I will do an assessment of my thought processes at my earliest opportunity and get back to you with the results.
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Imagine you need medical treatment, let's say you're insured but your claim gets turned down. What now?
We don't want this in the UK
This is why I am & always will be a socialist, healthcare is a human right
Are you with me? Then follow me!
#SocialistSunday
#NHS
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Today this lovely man indulged me with a pic
@jeremycorbyn
thank you so much for your support today
#NHSPay15
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It's
#followbackfriday
I'm a nurse mostly tweeting healthcare current affairs from an on the ground viewpoint
We are likely about to see the largest strikes in nursing since 1988 follow if updates on that interest you
Retweet if you support us 🙏
#FairPayForNursing
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#followbackfriday
I am an NHS Nurse posting about the health service from an on the ground perspective
Give me a follow, I follow back all legitimate accounts (nudge if I've missed you!)
Or retweet for me if you already do
Have a great day :)
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I'm a nurse I'm with you
Hospitals are already overwhelmed in certain areas of the country
We don't know enough about the new strain in children yet
I support our teachers
#schoolclosures
@NEUnion
@mcash
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GMB this morning discussing the fact that the Duchess of York had surgery with 2 weeks of her cancer diagnosis
If only everyone across the UK had the same experience in this situation
Cancer patients deserve better!
#NHS
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Is it acceptable to eat chocolate for breakfast?
Asking for a friend
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Im a nurse who strongly believes that healthcare for all regardless of income is something that is at risk and worth fighting to retain
Privatisation doesnt work
Just look at the energy crisis
If you believe that too lets follow eachother
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With serious shortages of staff you would think the NHS would be doing everything to entice workers back to our health service who perhaps left for private sector jobs?
Do you know that many trusts put nurses back on entry level wages if they rejoin the NHS? This is despite
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To all the people who are blaming nursing strikes for delays in treatment
Have you been living under a rock this past year?! The NHS is chaos, manufactured chaos at that.
If you truly want someone to blame look no further than Westminster.
#NursesStrike
#nhsstrikes
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Share this far and wide
This silence was held for the fallen healthcare workers at a demo early in the Covid pandemic. At that point the figure was 640 lost
So explain how can health trusts be claiming little to no workers died from exposure to Covid 19 in the line of duty?
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Triple lock plus.....Are they serious?
Pensioners are languishing for months in hospitals waiting on care so they can go home.
They can't get access to GP or specialists in a timely manner
Fix health and social care that's a priority for pensioners!
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Thanks to the NHS my 2 year old niece had her heart defect corrected
Thanks to the NHS my 14 year old niece has just beaten cancer
Thanks to the NHS my Nana died peacefully and pain free
From the cradle to the grave, that is the promise
Lets make our government keep it
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100% this
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I'm a Nurse who has been tweeting about healthcare/our pay campaign 2 ys now. I'm looking to connect with NHS Supporters ahead of strikes to combat the propaganda we will deal with & show support
I follow back legit accounts (nudge if I miss you) pls 🔄
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Today in London outside the
@BBC
during the
#NHSPay15
nationwide protests
A respectful silence for the 640 healthcare workers lost in the first wave of the Pandemic
Enough is enough
Please retweet
@NurseSayNO
@NHSMillion
@keepnhspublic
@nurses_united
Credit Fergal Mcentee
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Much as Nadine Dorries would have you all believe that us lady nurses are only skint as we didnt marry well its actually because we are the lowest paid degree profession in the UK
Dont be like Nadine
Back NHS Pay 15
#NHSPay15
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If the NHS is short of staff they have to use external agencies
Those agencies charge the NHS exorbitant rates to provide staff
If you owned shares in those agencies you wouldn't want to resolve the staffing crisis
Ask yourself who owns shares in those agencies ....
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It's Nurses Day 2023
So many of us have a stories of gratitude for nurses, this is one of mine:
Around 15 years ago, I was 5 months pregnant with my 3rd child. I had been feeling unwell for a couple of days but thought I had a viral infection.
On day 3, I woke up feeling very
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They don't care if you catch Covid
They don't care about protecting healthcare
They don't care about cutting welfare
They won't protect your data
They won't allow you to protest about any of it
I'm not sure we have a government anymore, I think maybe we have a regime
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I'm Siobhan
I've been a Nurse working in our NHS for around a decade and activist for the past 4.
As a socialist I believe healthcare is a human right and will fight to protect our NHS for the generations to come.
Are you with me? Give me a follow
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Did I just hear on the radio that Steve Barclay says there's room for discussion on nurses pay?!
I wonder what could have been the catalyst for that statement....
#NursesStrike
#FairPayforNursing
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I'm a Nurse who has been tweeting about healthcare/our pay campaign 2 ys now. I'm looking to connect with NHS Supporters ahead of strikes to combat the propaganda we will deal with & show support
Please consider a follow or a 🔄 if you already do 💙
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#followbackfriday
I'm a Nurse who has been tweeting about healthcare/our pay campaign 2 ys now. I'm looking to connect with NHS Supporters ahead of strikes to combat the propaganda we will deal with & show support
Please consider a follow or a 🔄 if you already do 💙
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I'm genuinely disgusted at both Liz Truss and Sunaks attitude toward the hard working people of this country
Parasites both of them
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I'm taking part in an online protest
If you think the NHS workers of this country deserve better please support us in our
#nhspay15
campaign
Join the movement
@NurseSayNO
Follow me
Show the love with a retweet
Enough is enough
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Im a nurse who strongly believes that healthcare for all regardless of income is something that is at risk and worth fighting to retain
Privatisation doesnt work
Just look at the energy crisis
If you believe that too lets follow eachother
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Imagine you need medical treatment, let's say you're insured but if you pay your deductible you are going to struggle to eat
This is why I am & always will be a socialist, healthcare free at the point of need is a human right
Are you with me? Then follow me!
#SocialistSunday
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#socialistsunday
Im a nurse who strongly believes that healthcare for all regardless of income is something that is at risk and worth fighting to retain
Privatisation doesn't work
Just look at the energy crisis
If you believe that too,let's follow eachother
Please 🔄
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I think this Tory MP should work for the same wage as us, after all isn't Democracy a calling?
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🚨🚨Attention please 🚨🚨
Industrial action ballots are about to launch for NHS England & Wales employees. It is critical that we get the word out as it is rumoured some unions will go straight to strike ballot
Please support us, retweet 🙏🔄
Details to follow
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So strikes will be called after RCN members decided to reject the government's pay cut.
The government has trampled on nurses for so long they never expected our profession to fight back
Mistake, BIG MISTAKE! 💪
You have voted to reject the NHS pay offer for nursing staff in England.
Next steps:
- Seek urgent talks with UK govt
- 48-hour strike from 8pm 30 April, without derogations
- England-wide statutory ballot to extend current strike mandate
Read more.
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The UK just now:
"I'm struggling to keep my family on £2000 a month"
"You think thats bad I'm struggling on £1500"
"I only have £1000"
Its become a race to the bottom. The working class think they are eachothers enemy & the elite laugh. Until that changes, nothing else will!
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Returning my
@theRCN
industrial action ballot, saying
#enoughisenough
giving my union a mandate for strike
Have you voted yet?
#FairPayForNursing
#SafeStaffingSavesLives
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The government are trying to sabotage the upcoming 48hr nursing strikes, claiming that day 2 is not legitimately within the mandate period. A desperate move
If you are backing nurses follow our union
@theRCN
and 🔄 to spread the word
Let's show the government the support we
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And so the information war against nurses begins, don't get me wrong I expected the right wing to come for us but the Department for Health & Social care..... what fresh hell is this
#nhsstrike
#NursesStrike
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One of my colleagues last week in Aldi witnessed a woman short at the tills she asked the cashier to stop scanning. Her kids were upset as she had to return their treats.A bystander stepped in & paid the shortfall
Sorry Margaret society is alive and well in the working class
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It's
#socialistsunday
Many of the community know me already,I'm an NHS Nurse fighting 2 years now for fair pay for NHS workers. Now we are on the brink of strike we need as much help as we can get to spread the word & pass ballots
Please consider following to support ✊️🙏
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RANT WARNING
I read this comment earlier:
"The NHS receiving the George Cross is an insult to war heroes who had actual courage"
Don't tell me any medical worker after seeing the scenes from Italy, knowing what they were about to face didn't have courage in this Pandemic
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I fully back my trade unions choice to ramp up the level of strike action to a full 48 hour all out approach.
This didn't need to happen the government knew this was a possible outcome & done nothing to prevent it.
I suspect there will be a Cobra meeting now
#NursesStrike
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When your dinner break is at 4am and its okay to eat cold sausage rolls through the night
Nurse life
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Thanks to all who have tweeted or messaged well wishes my PCR confirmed its definitely Coronavirus last night
At the moment I'm very tired and in some pain but I'm breathing fine and resting plenty
Thanks again
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As you may have seen I posted last night about a coordinated pile on my account received yesterday. All because I posted my support for my striking colleagues. This morning I woke up to a lot of supportive comments. Just wanted to say thank you, faith in humanity restored ✊️💙
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Imagine you need medical treatment, let's say you're insured but your claim gets turned down. What now?
We don't want this in the UK
This is why I am & always will be a socialist, healthcare is a human right
Are you with me? Then follow me!
#SocialistSunday
#NHS
I'm on
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Im a nurse who strongly believes that healthcare for all regardless of income is something that is at risk and worth fighting to retain
Privatisation doesnt work
Just look at the energy crisis
If you believe that too lets follow eachother
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Should carers and nurses be paid the same?
@GMB
are asking this morning. Simply put no, nursing demands 3 to 4 years of study.
Having said that carers should be paid far more than they currently are it's a vastly underappreciated and vital role in society
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Do you support striking NHS staff? Then please join our twitterstorm tonight 🙏
Use the
#VoteForStrike
and put out as many tweets as you can.
Please 🔄 and share within your networks
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📢📢📢 Can you help? 📢📢📢
For a Twitter account related to NHS news & the pay campaign I'm quite a small account
Can you retweet this to help people find me?
We need strong voices on social for what's about to come in 2021
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A very close friend of mine has been admitted to hospital today due to Coronavirus
A reminder "low risk" is not "no risk"
Please take care all
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It's
#socialistsunday
Many of our community know me already,I'm an NHS Nurse fighting 2 years now for fair pay for NHS workers. Now we are on the brink of strike we need as much help as we can get to spread the word & pass ballots
Please consider following to support ✊️🙏
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Going in for surgery tomorrow morning 7am, starting to feel a little anxious now
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Many NHS staff earn as little as just over nine pounds an hour
Lets me ask you, would you be willing to potentially put your life on the line for that kind of money?
If the answer is a horrified no then support us
#NHSPAY15
#thunderclapforcarers
#withnhsstaff
#NHSblueheart
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How would you feel about being examined in a corridor?
What about if you needed to be catheterised in a corridor?
Sound undignified? It is and it has to end.
There is no such thing as corridor care this is the ultimate demonstration of a failing system & government!
#sosnhs
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I really need to get this poll out there. Please 🔄🙏
If NHS workers ballot for strike would you support them?
Please do comment as this is a hotly debated issue among my colleagues who say we don't have public support
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No
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