Feb 13
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I see that the government’s response to the justifiable public outrage against the pitiful pay rise that NHS nurses have been awarded, is: ‘Nurses are in it for the right reasons- they’re not doing it for the money.’
That’s all very well, but nurses have to put up with enough stress at work, they could do without the added burden of financial stress. Besides, I’m pretty sure that Covid patients would rather be treated by nurses who aren’t spending sleepless nights worrying about how to pay the bills and mounting debts.
Aren’t members of Parliament also meant to be doing their job for a chance to serve and not just for money? And we all know that in most cases that is a big fat lie.
If the nurses do go on strike, I do not blame them. It’s not quite the centenary of the last one, but maybe a second General Strike is called for. It might send a message that Thatcher didn’t manage to crush the Unions after all.
Nurses' strike: Trust release statement
NHS nurses will take part in their biggest yet strike before Christmas, in pursuit of better pay. The nurses’ union, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), balloted its 300,000 members between 6 October and 2 November on industrial action, the first time in its 106-year history that it had done so for its members across all four UK nations. In response to the planned industrial action…
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“The staffing crisis in the NHS in England is even worse than official figures suggest. NHS Digital figures suggest that the service has vacancies for 38,972 nurses and 8,016 doctors. However, the real figures could be as high as 50,000 and 12,000 respectively, according to estimates the Nuffield Trust prepared for the MPs. The trust’s analysis accords with the view of many frontline doctors and managers that some posts are not advertised, and thus not picked up by the statistical agency, because hospitals cannot afford to fill them, even if suitable doctors or nurses are identified.”
Kidney Donor Recipient Dorchester Hospital in Coronavirus Times.