Clap for Carers returned last night under the new name of Clap for Heroes but on nurse from the south-east of England has spoken out and is calling for fair pay, safe staffing and adequate personal protective equipment (PPE).
Lucy Taylor, told NursingNotes; “While we appreciate the gesture from the public, standing on doorsteps and clapping has been politicised and isn’t helping those working tirelessly on the frontline of the pandemic.
“Our profession is already around 40,000 nurses short, we were only scraping by before the pandemic. Nursing needs fair pay, fully-funded training schemes, safe staffing and access to the protective equipment we need to do our jobs and anything less than this bare minimum is an insult.
Rather than clapping, most NHS doctors and nurses would really appreciate people abiding by the rules, you can’t clap when you are on a ventilator.
— Veronica Trotter (@VeronicaTrotsky) January 6, 2021
“We are not heroes, we are real hard-working people with families and friends and loved ones – calling us heroes only serves to make it more palatable when one of us dies.”
