LONDON: A nurse credited with helping to save Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s life last year has quit the UK health service in protest at the government’s lack of “respect” for frontline staff.
New Zealand-born Jenny McGee was one of two intensive-care nurses who gave Johnson round-the-clock treatment a year ago in a central London hospital when he was struck down with Covid-19.
The prime minister said later that he only pulled through thanks to their care, but his government has since faced fury from nurses for offering a pay rise of just one percent effectively a cut, after inflation.
Nurse who helped saved Boris Johnson s life quits in protest Tue 18th May 2021 | 11:12 PM
A nurse credited with helping to save Prime Minister Boris Johnson s life last year has quit the UK health service in protest at the government s lack of respect for frontline staff
London, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th May, 2021 ) :A nurse credited with helping to save Prime Minister Boris Johnson s life last year has quit the UK health service in protest at the government s lack of respect for frontline staff.
New Zealand-born Jenny McGee was one of two intensive-care nurses, who gave Johnson round-the-clock treatment a year ago in a central London hospital when he was struck down with Covid-19.
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It was just very upsetting.
Keir Starmer, leader of the main opposition Labour party, said Ms McGee s resignation was a devastating indictment of Boris Johnson s approach to the people who put their lives on the line for him and our whole country .
But a Downing Street spokesperson said this government will do everything in our power to support staff of the National Health Service (NHS), stressing they had been excluded from a pay freeze affecting other public sector workers.
NHS nurse Jenny McGee at a Downing Street garden party with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 7 May, 2020.
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In the documentary, Ms McGee says it was surreal seeing the prime minister in her hospital.
I m just sick of it. So I ve handed in my resignation.
She refused to take part in a Downing Street photo opportunity last July, saying: Lots of nurses felt that the government hadn t led very effectively – the indecisiveness, so many mixed messages. It was just very upsetting.
Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the main opposition Labour party, said Ms McGee s resignation was a devastating indictment of Boris Johnson s approach to the people who put their lives on the line for him and our whole country .
But Downing Street said: This government will do everything in our power to support staff of the National Health Service, stressing they had been excluded from a pay freeze affecting other public-sector workers.