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A below-inflation pay “rise” is in fact a pay cut. Spending power drops every year.
#NHS staff have had below-inflation pay rises for 15 years.
A nurse or doc now is relatively worse off than a nurse or doc 15 years ago.
But that’s the least of it...
#NHS staff have had below-inflation pay rises for 15 years.
A nurse or doc now is relatively worse off than a nurse or doc 15 years ago.
But that’s the least of it...
...on top of effective pay cuts, #NHS staff have seen accommodation on site sold off / now cost a fortune.
Staff car parking costs more and more to “nudge” people away from using cars. How does that work if you have to start your shift at 06:45 almost anywhere outside London?...
Staff car parking costs more and more to “nudge” people away from using cars. How does that work if you have to start your shift at 06:45 almost anywhere outside London?...
...Staff canteens are a thing of the past. Some newer hospitals were even designed deliberately without break rooms for staff.
Patients are surviving better for longer, which is great, but that means they come in sicker. The intensity has increased every year I’ve been a doc...
Patients are surviving better for longer, which is great, but that means they come in sicker. The intensity has increased every year I’ve been a doc...
...meanwhile bed numbers per head of population are among the lowest in the developed world, putting pressure on staff to discharge patients as fast as possible.
But staffing numbers are similarly low, so everyone is plugging rota gaps, working over their hours, exhausted...
But staffing numbers are similarly low, so everyone is plugging rota gaps, working over their hours, exhausted...
...leaving little time for training, reflection, team building, self care.
There are more than 43,000 nursing vacancies in our #NHS already.
And this was all piling up before #Covid_19 crashed into our lives.
So...
There are more than 43,000 nursing vacancies in our #NHS already.
And this was all piling up before #Covid_19 crashed into our lives.
So...
...please excuse me if I balk at the medals and the clapping and the martyr narrative.
If the #NHS is so great, and it’s staff such heroes, why not pay us properly, protect us properly, and let us get on with looking after patients?
If the #NHS is so great, and it’s staff such heroes, why not pay us properly, protect us properly, and let us get on with looking after patients?
Oh loads of other issues, but the thread was getting long. For Pete’s sake stop making student nurses pay to work on wards. It’s bonkers. Stop making NHS staff from abroad who are paying tax also pay for using the NHS. Start providing cups of tea for staff! Tiny things. Do it.