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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Public Accounts Committee report on Test, Track and Trace

Press Release 10/03/2021

Royal College of Nursing responds to the Public Accounts Committee report on Test, Track and Trace

Responding to the Public Accounts Committee report on Test, Track and Trace, Royal College of Nursing Chief Executive and General Secretary, Dame Donna Kinnair, said:

“Nursing staff who have been offered a 1% pay increase will be furious to hear of the millions of pounds being spent on private-sector consultants.

“The public know more nurses, not more highly-paid consultants, means better care.

“The Government needs to move nursing staff up their list of priorities or they risk losing those who they have relied on from the very beginning of the pandemic.

"They have delivered exceptional patient care throughout this crisis and are at the forefront of the vaccination programme.”

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