Nurse who treated Boris Johnson when he had COVID-19 resigns

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A nurse who helped save Boris Johnson from COVID resigned over his government's treatment of health workers during the pandemic

But speaking in a Channel 4 documentary called"The Year Britain Stopped," which is due to explore the UK's coronavirus response, McGee said she had become disillusioned by the government's treatment of NHS staff, HuffPost UK reported.this year for offering health staff a 1% payrise, which has been characterized as a real-terms paycut after inflation is factored in.

McGee said that she was invited to take care in a"clap for carers" event at Downing Street in July last summer, but had declined to attend. "Lots of nurses felt that the government hadn't led very effectively, the indecisiveness, so many mixed messages. It was just very upsetting," she said.Insider contacted the Department of Health for comment, but is yet to recieve a response.McGee's decision was a"devastating indictment of Boris Johnson's approach to the people who put their lives on the line for him and our whole country.

McGee said she would be starting a nursing contract in the Caribbean and holidaying in her native New Zealand,

 

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