Nurses in Nottingham join colleagues across the country in the walk-out over pay.
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Nurses at the Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital voted for action but colleagues at King's Mill in Nottinghamshire will work as normal. "We want to achieve safe staffing for our patients and unless we get paid fairly we won't be able to persuade people to stay in nursing."Rachel Humphreys and Shani Melbourne highlights thousands of nursing vacancies as a result of present conditions
"I'm not taking anything away from supermarket workers who do a fantastic job but we are responsible for patient safety and our pay doesn't reflect that at all.Image caption,As a specialist renal nurse, Rachel Humphreys said she earned more but the problem was wider than individual salaries "We know it because we work there and see it, making decisions about which patients get painkillers or which get drips or do you care for the old lady that has been incontinent in the bed, or care for the dying patient and their family?
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