Image: Nurses pay protest 2017. Credit: Yui Mok/PA Images, all rights reserved
Furious members of the Royal College of Nursing last night launched a petition calling for the union’s leaders to stand down over their handling of communications about this year’s NHS pay deal in England.
OurNHS understands the petition is well over halfway to the required number of signatures to trigger an emergency general meeting, another of its demands. It was started after the head of the RCN, Janet Davies, last night took the unprecedented step of writing to members to apologise that they were given incorrect information about the pay deal that they voted on in the spring. Ms Davies acknowledged that many have received less than the RCN told them they would.
