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The case for replacing nurses with robots

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Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans
A show that does nursing few favours: Tending at the Riverside Studios.  IMAGE: CHARLIE FLINT
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 26 April 2025
issue 26 April 2025

Tending is a work of activism on behalf of the NHS. The script brings together the testimony of 70 nurses in a show spoken by three performers. It’s full of surprises and shocks. All NHS nurses are obliged to annotate their actions as they work. ‘If you haven’t documented it, you haven’t done it,’ they’re told.

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