The thing is if British people valued the NHS they would do something more than clap and keep voting for tax cuts.
You’ll miss it when it’s gone.
I won’t forget how my countrymen looked at me like I was the most evil piece of shit ever for not clapping like a seal when they did. Neighbours, furious, Facebook imploring me.
Where are these wankers now? Really, right now, go on your Facebook and find the people who demanded you did this and look for the conspicuous absence of their fucks at this time. Under that status, post this link, they will thank you for alerting them to their heroic superhuman NHS.
Either that or it was a collective delusion in action, an example of how easy it is to get people to do whatever stupid shit you want.
It’s not critical NHS time yet either, however something will ‘spark a national debate’ with a majority of the public supporting the privitisation of the NHS because ‘it’s awful that what happened with that kid who waited ten hours for an ambulance ‘
>Leanne, 35, who works at a London hospital, says she cannot afford to have children or save for a home – and has even had to use a credit card to get to work.
>A Band 6 nurse, she earns between £20,000 and £39,000 but says: “I couldn’t survive without a second job. I shop clever. Everything is saved for, prepared.
Nurses (like most NHS staff) are horribly underpaid for what they do, but this particular case must have more to it than face value because the numbers don’t add up. That or the journalist is fucking shit at reporting.
£20k/year is several grand less than a newly qualified nurse earns as a basic salary without any antisocial hours enhancements or London weighting. As a band six, with London weighting she’d have to be working about 20hrs/week to earn anything that low.
£39k is roughly what what a band six would earn for a 37.5hr week with London weighting without any overtime or enhancements, so she can’t be earning 39k for a 72hr week unless she’s doing three shifts a week unpaid.
Ungrateful of her to not be happy with the claps.
>we are undervalued
Working for any company is the same. Actually The NHS is basically a charity so actually getting paid more than living wage is a good thing.
No one is forcing the doctors to do 3-6 years study, no one is forcing the doctors to work in the hospitals.
People clapped for them. Bunch of ingrates, what else do they want???
/s
The cost of the NHS per year (114 Billion) is more than the GDP of Kuwait. It is only slightly less than the GDP of Hungary. I love the NHS. The troops on the ground are doing their best. The way it is run though is so ridiculously inefficient and broken that the only way to keep it running is to prop it up with more cash. The horrible truth is that for many private companies and connected individuals the NHS is a massive gravy train and for this reason the broken system will continue and it will be funded by more tax payer money or partial privatisation. Nearly half of the NHS budget is spent on committees making decisions. For all the talking, nobody actually has a policy that will sort this issue out permanently and just coming up with a viable plan would take years due to the size and complexity of this entity. The true cost of this gravy train will not be in pounds, it will be measured in the lives lost or made miserable by the inevitable lack of service or equipment that will be provided in the coming years even with increased funding.
If nurses strike, the blood is on the hands of the government, who is responsible for this. They did this, cruelty has always been the point and money was the motive.
The entire working class is undervalued we all need to strike
As a married partner to an amazing nurse, with whom I have 2 children, those shift patterns affect more than just one person’s sanity.
My sister in law is a midwife and was looking after 10 pregnant women on her own the other day. How much more can the NHS stand?
I’m not sure how good of an idea this is, but I think Nurses need to continue to work, but find a *sponsor* to come and “strike”. I’d gladly attend in a nurses name. Heck, maybe the union could encourage each nurse to find two *sponsors.* This way nobodies lives are at risk.
The laughable thing about this all is when I was watching the RCN intital talks of strike action there was two options. First one was that nurses and other HCPs take mandatory breaks and don’t do any unpaid overtime, the other is actual strike action.
To me this really hit home how utterly fucked my/our profession is, that a form of industrial action was to take the breaks I am owed and leave on time….
We need higher wages to pay staff to keep them from leaving and intise more people to train as nurses and see it as a good prospect. Also people get too caught up on the nurses side of the story. For me im wanting to strike for my fellow colleagues aswell. The backbone staff that are not nurses like medical secretaries, porters etc. They truly are struggling with the cost of living. Hospital porters work like dogs to keep the NHS running and only get paid 20k at the moment. They are due to get a 9% increase as part of the new deal but that is only going to be to like 21,800 and these are the people that are running down the corridor to get the emergency blood, pushing people to CT scanners at 2am, take dead bodies to morgues etc. Truly undervalued people.
Do it, go on strike, and don’t try to be reasonable take them to the fucking cleaners
I doubt I do 78 hours actual work in a month.
And my work involves moving a mouse while sat in a chair listening to music I like. Sometimes I even get to do that from home. Also nothing I do is all that important.
It’s an absolute disgrace how we treat people that will be there for us and our families when we need medical help.
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The thing is if British people valued the NHS they would do something more than clap and keep voting for tax cuts.
You’ll miss it when it’s gone.
I won’t forget how my countrymen looked at me like I was the most evil piece of shit ever for not clapping like a seal when they did. Neighbours, furious, Facebook imploring me.
Where are these wankers now? Really, right now, go on your Facebook and find the people who demanded you did this and look for the conspicuous absence of their fucks at this time. Under that status, post this link, they will thank you for alerting them to their heroic superhuman NHS.
Either that or it was a collective delusion in action, an example of how easy it is to get people to do whatever stupid shit you want.
It’s not critical NHS time yet either, however something will ‘spark a national debate’ with a majority of the public supporting the privitisation of the NHS because ‘it’s awful that what happened with that kid who waited ten hours for an ambulance ‘
>Leanne, 35, who works at a London hospital, says she cannot afford to have children or save for a home – and has even had to use a credit card to get to work.
>A Band 6 nurse, she earns between £20,000 and £39,000 but says: “I couldn’t survive without a second job. I shop clever. Everything is saved for, prepared.
Nurses (like most NHS staff) are horribly underpaid for what they do, but this particular case must have more to it than face value because the numbers don’t add up. That or the journalist is fucking shit at reporting.
£20k/year is several grand less than a newly qualified nurse earns as a basic salary without any antisocial hours enhancements or London weighting. As a band six, with London weighting she’d have to be working about 20hrs/week to earn anything that low.
£39k is roughly what what a band six would earn for a 37.5hr week with London weighting without any overtime or enhancements, so she can’t be earning 39k for a 72hr week unless she’s doing three shifts a week unpaid.
Ungrateful of her to not be happy with the claps.
>we are undervalued
Working for any company is the same. Actually The NHS is basically a charity so actually getting paid more than living wage is a good thing.
No one is forcing the doctors to do 3-6 years study, no one is forcing the doctors to work in the hospitals.
People clapped for them. Bunch of ingrates, what else do they want???
/s
The cost of the NHS per year (114 Billion) is more than the GDP of Kuwait. It is only slightly less than the GDP of Hungary. I love the NHS. The troops on the ground are doing their best. The way it is run though is so ridiculously inefficient and broken that the only way to keep it running is to prop it up with more cash. The horrible truth is that for many private companies and connected individuals the NHS is a massive gravy train and for this reason the broken system will continue and it will be funded by more tax payer money or partial privatisation. Nearly half of the NHS budget is spent on committees making decisions. For all the talking, nobody actually has a policy that will sort this issue out permanently and just coming up with a viable plan would take years due to the size and complexity of this entity. The true cost of this gravy train will not be in pounds, it will be measured in the lives lost or made miserable by the inevitable lack of service or equipment that will be provided in the coming years even with increased funding.
If nurses strike, the blood is on the hands of the government, who is responsible for this. They did this, cruelty has always been the point and money was the motive.
The entire working class is undervalued we all need to strike
As a married partner to an amazing nurse, with whom I have 2 children, those shift patterns affect more than just one person’s sanity.
My sister in law is a midwife and was looking after 10 pregnant women on her own the other day. How much more can the NHS stand?
I’m not sure how good of an idea this is, but I think Nurses need to continue to work, but find a *sponsor* to come and “strike”. I’d gladly attend in a nurses name. Heck, maybe the union could encourage each nurse to find two *sponsors.* This way nobodies lives are at risk.
The laughable thing about this all is when I was watching the RCN intital talks of strike action there was two options. First one was that nurses and other HCPs take mandatory breaks and don’t do any unpaid overtime, the other is actual strike action.
To me this really hit home how utterly fucked my/our profession is, that a form of industrial action was to take the breaks I am owed and leave on time….
We need higher wages to pay staff to keep them from leaving and intise more people to train as nurses and see it as a good prospect. Also people get too caught up on the nurses side of the story. For me im wanting to strike for my fellow colleagues aswell. The backbone staff that are not nurses like medical secretaries, porters etc. They truly are struggling with the cost of living. Hospital porters work like dogs to keep the NHS running and only get paid 20k at the moment. They are due to get a 9% increase as part of the new deal but that is only going to be to like 21,800 and these are the people that are running down the corridor to get the emergency blood, pushing people to CT scanners at 2am, take dead bodies to morgues etc. Truly undervalued people.
Do it, go on strike, and don’t try to be reasonable take them to the fucking cleaners
I doubt I do 78 hours actual work in a month.
And my work involves moving a mouse while sat in a chair listening to music I like. Sometimes I even get to do that from home. Also nothing I do is all that important.
It’s an absolute disgrace how we treat people that will be there for us and our families when we need medical help.