Yorkshire MPs must act over nursing crisis – Yorkshire Post Letters

YOUR readers will be aware of the well-documented pressures currently being experienced in health services both locally and nationally.

The reality is that the current problems have been a long time in the making.

For more than a decade 
the Royal College of Nursing 
has been warning that the NHS and wider health and care 
system is so short of nursing 
staff that patients do not 
always receive the safe and 
high standard of care they expect.

While we all hope the pressures piled on by Covid-19 will soon start to subside again, the underlying workforce shortages, declining morale and unsustainable pressures will remain.

Nursing staff don’t go into 
the profession to deliver care 
that they know is below the standard they want to provide and that patients and their families rightly expect, but 
they need the proper resources to deliver a high standard of 
care.

Please contact your MP 
and support us as we continue 
to promote the importance 
of safe staffing across the 
whole health and care 
system.

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