And today nursing chief Andrea Sutcliffe asks Sunday Mirror readers who have left nursing in the last three years to rally alongside their former colleagues. Nurses who have returned to the front line told yesterday why they wanted to help fight coronavirus, despite the risks. She said: “My son and daughter-in-law are NHS nurses. “When I thought about the sheer volume of front line NHS staff that will be needed, I realised what we have now wouldn’t be enough. Tory-led cuts since 2010 has left the NHS crippled with more than 200,000 nurses quitting in the last 10 years.

Source: Daily Mirror March 21, 2020 22:14 UTC