Car convoy to visit hospitals in demand for NHS fair pay

NURSES are set to make their fair pay demands heard with a car convoy visiting local hospitals this weekend. People are being invited to join the socially distanced event to demonstrate their support for the NHS workers with beeps and honks.

One of the Glasgow organisers of the “Beep Beep” procession, Brenda Eadie, believes the keyworkers’ jobs are only getting harder but that the recognition is not good enough.

“At the moment NHS workers are on their knees. They are struggling so bad,” she said.

“They barely made it through a first wave and now that we are being hit by a second wave, people are absolutely exhausted. Nurses are actually walking away from their career. Not just one or two, there are lots and lots of nurses walking away.

“They don’t want to do it. They think working a second wave is going to finish them off mentally.”

The Glasgow car procession will start at Gartnavel General Hospital at 11am tomorrow.

They will then head towards Glasgow Royal Infirmary, followed by Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and another four before ending the procession at Ayr Hospital.

Routes have been planned out as to ensure that no entrances or emergency exits are blocked by the car convoy.

They will spend around five minutes at each hospital as they hope to make more workers aware of the group which is “fighting” to support them.

It comes as part of convoys planned across the UK.

A number of NHS Workers