New research has shown that nurses are the most under-appreciated public sector professionals. The study also found that other NHS staff, policing, education and civil service workers are also being under-valued. Almost 5.4 million people are employed in the public sector and civil service across the UK but research by public sector membership club Boundless has revealed how rarely they get thanked.

The research, which polled 2004 UK workers in advance of the UN’s Public Service Day on 23 June, shows: