UK nurses’ leader says politicians only made modest progress with pay and staffing

Pat Cullen urges RCN members in new year message to ‘push ministers further’

Politicians did only enough to save their own skins during strikes by nurses, a union leader has claimed, meaning there was just modest progress in NHS pay and staffing in 2023.

Pat Cullen, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said Westminster stopped well short of the “revolution needed”.