how did you manage to keep going for 31 hours? well, you do, i think. willpower, i suppose, isn t it? winter pressure is nothing new in the nhs, but the combination of flu, covid, staff shortages and delays discharging patients to social care means for many, this is the worst winter they can remember. we don t want to be seeing patients in corridors. we don t want to be breaking bad news in cupboards. we don t want to be doing that sort of thing. and it s quite hard to keep doing that. we know we shouldn t be doing it. it s just the only thing we can do to keep the system going. the government in westminster says the nhs is its top priority and it s providing an extra £14 billion over the next couple of years. we ve seen significant pressure on the nhs, particularly over this period through a combination of very high rates of flu, persistent and high levels of covid, continuing concerns, particularly amongst many parents, around strep a. and that has combined over that period with a t
this is everyday life for staff and patients here in a&e, and at most other leading hospitals. harriet has been slapped and bitten by a dementia patient. she is known to be quite aggressive at times but she obviously didn t like this, so she grabbed the drip stand and grabbed my arm and she bit my arm. i was able to get her off. unfortunately we can t give her the fluids, but we ll try the next step. security has been called as staff are dealing with another dementia patient who is trying to walk out of a&e. safina is mentoring student nurse emily. it s a long day. get tired doing it all day. he s constantly trying to get out of the bed and do stuff you don t want him to do. how much pressure do you feel right now, every day? the winter pressure, you can feel the winter pressure. like, more people coming in each day. yeah. how are you finding it, emily? yeah, really good.
like this, so she grabbed the drip stand and grabbed my arm and she bit my arm. i was able to get her off. unfortunately we can t give her the fluids, but we ll try the next step. security has been called as staff are dealing with another dementia patient who is trying to walk out of a&e. saphena is mentoring student nurse emily. it s a long day. get tired doing it all day. he s constantly trying to get out of the bed and do stuff you don t want him to do. how much pressure do you feel right now, every day? the winter pressure, you can feel the winter pressure. like, more people coming in each day. yeah. how are you finding it, emily? yeah, really good. so, this is my 12th week out of 12, so i ve been here three months now, but i ve learned so much. it s been a great placement. however busy, the hospital is trying to get patients quickly out of a&e. we don t do corridor care, here. we have really high standards and we avoid that at all costs.
been on strike before, but if this vote goes through, it will be the first time in the rcn s106 year history that there has been a nationwide strike. not all nurses would walk out. some, whose work is considered to be life preserving, or if it was not administered would lead to permanent disability, will continue to work, too. but this strike is intended to disrupt and it is likely to come at a time when winter pressure is starting to build. the rcn say they have no other choice. is this the responsible thing to do, to take strike action, when we are coming into winter? you see, this is about nurses trying to get ministers to actually stand up and listen to the dire straits they are in trying every day to look after their patients. the department of health and social care in england has said it values the work of nhs nurses and is supporting them by giving them a pay rise of at least £1400 a year. scotland s health secretary suggested yesterday that he would be making an improved offe