Andrea Sutcliffe who is the chief executor over at the Nursing and Midwifery Council has come out to say that nurses need to have more protection if they want to give the support that the patients need. Nurses are currently facing some of the biggest challenges in their lives right now and if they are not looked after then the entire front line is going to crumble. Sutcliffe has stated that more needs to be done to try and give PPE to nurses and this comes after the Royal College of Nursing wrote a letter to the prime minister regarding the same issue.

Health and Social Staff

If you work in a nurse agency or in a nursing recruitment agency then you will know what a difficult time this is right now. Covid-19 essentially means that midwives and even nursing professionals are under so much more pressure than normal and that they need to try and do everything they can to provide the critical care required to those who are in need. This needs to be done across the entire industry of health and social care. If this is not done, then nurses are not going to be able to provide the support that they need, and everyone is going to suffer as a result.
It’s incredibly vital that the frontline staff are given the help they need with testing and they are also given the right level of personal protection as well. If they aren’t then this could mean bad things for the future and it might even mean that the virus ends up killing far more people than it should. Right now, the times are uncertain but if nurses are given the help they need then they will be able to do their job properly.