More and more staff to leave Merseyside NHS over abuse from patients
At the moment, there are four-thousand job vacancies for nurses across the North West
There are warnings more and more staff will leave Merseyside's NHS if something isn't done about the amount of abuse they face on a daily basis.
It comes a day after a committee in parliament warned the health service is facing its 'worst staffing crisis ever''.
At the moment, there are four-thousand job vacancies for nurses across the North West.
Estephanie Dunn's from the Royal College of Nursing in our region :
"We've heard about people being punched in the face, being throttled and grabbed by the throat. That is just unacceptable.
"The violence does have an impact on morale and the ability to recruit and retain and against the backdrop of violence and threat it isn't hard to see why we have these vacancies.
"Nobody could pay you enough to be punched in the face unless you are a mixed martial arts fighter".
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