What are the Nurses trying to achieve?

Ok I’ll bite advocating for saving the NHS for nurses isn’t as flawed a strategy as it was for us. Yes nurses are underpaid and deserve a pay rise but the NHS isn’t as much an existential threat to their profession as it is to doctors. Over the last decades the roles of nurses and nursing has expanded and you can move up the ranks relatively quickly. Yes there are many huge institutional issues like the hawkish nmc etc but the powers that be havent declared war on nursing and there is an ecosystem where nursing can exist valued in the NHS. The NHS on the other hand announced itself as a way to battle selfish doctors and health secretaries both labour and Tory have gone to war with docs increased training length decaresed training spots playing to a tabloid press and looking to replaces us where they can. Don’t get me wrong I do back the strikes and it’s disgraceful that the gov tries to save the economy by making public sector pay for it but the reason why save the NHS was so counterproductive for us is because ideologically the NHS is our enemy.

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