Hero nurses have experienced shocking abuse while trying to care for patients - they've even been spat at and called "disease spreaders" according to England's chief nurse and the Royal College of Nursing.
And only days into the growing numbers of cases of confirmed cases of Covid-19 and with the death toll at 177 nurses are wearing bin bags as makeshift personal protection equipment (PPE).
It doesn't bode well for the national plea from the NHS for retired nurses and doctors to return to help out in hospitals as things start to become critical.
The RCN said it had received anecdotal reports of community nurses receiving abuse while working in uniform. Separately, England’s chief nurse Ruth May said she had heard reports of nurses being
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