It’s not safe for patients already due to the massive strain on the NHS that’s why they are striking to reiterate that problem!
This is the crunch moment. Now the NHS is bleeding to death from the billion cuts afflicted by the Tories the Tories will try to convince us the NHS doesn’t work and we need the US model.
The NHS works fine, better than the Tories ever hoped. It’s the Tories we need to get rid of.
I absolutely agree with them but I think it’s rather selfish putting so many people at risk.
Its unfortunate money always seems to be the focus when discussion of strikes come up.
For myself and a lot of my colleagues while the money is important and a factor the level of understaffing and workload has become unmanageable which is a danger to patients but also we risk our licenses and careers if something goes wrong.
Pre covid my ward would run ratios of 1:8 days and 1:11 at night, but thanks to shortages as well as having to increase our ward patient numbers, were now 1:12 during day and at times ive been 1: 20 during the night and this is an acute ward, there has been an increase in agency staff that lack needed skills, ive had shifts where im the only core staff member.
All of this gets you to a point where you cant do proper care you can only prioritise the essential stuff, but that means care standards drop, errors increase, deteriorating patients get missed or picked up later, newly qualified staff get no support and burn out.
Imagine you go to work and they tell you your workload has gone up 50% and not only will we not pay you more, if you make a mistake you lose your career, id be a lot more forgiving of the pay if the conditions werent so awful.
The unions ALWAYS say “it’s about safety”. It’s called the Bob Crow defense.
And the Tories response will be to ban striking and offer an expensive private alternative to the NHS.
We need to turn this country around and that means leaving behind market fundamentalism and fiscal conservatism.
Going to assume that the prime motivation of nurses to become nurses is to help people.
In the article they state that wage increases are necessary to retain talent and maintain staffing levels – which contributes to the amount of care you get if you fall ill.
Calling them selfish as some people have done here is truly breathtaking when we’ve been through a pandemic where they had to wage war with a new virus.
I support the nurses fully. The tories have cut and cut the NHS and it is losing blood. The NHS is incredible and has saved countless lives (even saved Boris Johnson’s life) and the tories are still trying to destroy it.
Don’t let them turn our health into profit. Support the strikes!
Also where is that 350m we were promised for the NHS. The party is full of crooks and liars.
I really respect the strikers. On a personal level they could all just say fuck it, im out, go into the private sector and earn more almost anywhere.
But they really believe in the NHS. They are desperate to save it. And this is the only way. By breaking it fully to make it obvious what has happened.
We have sleep walked into so many disasters in this country. We have to stop the rot.
Honestly I think we’re headed to a point of collapse.
The government have underfunded the NHS and police service for years to the point where both are on their knees and one directly affects the other in a symbiotic way.
You have the NHS workers being paid pennies to look after the worst in society and being treat like shit by them, the genuine people needing help/support are left waiting for hours or not accessing the services they need at all, they’re overworked because you can’t exactly ignore your job, but the staffing levels are getting lower because the pay and conditions are fucking shit.
You then have less staff/ambulances on the road so the police end up doing jobs which aren’t suited for them and are acting as either taxi drivers or becoming untrained mental health workers because their first and most important rule is to protect and preserve life, you then have less officers on the street able to do the job they’re paid to do. The police are underpaid, overworked and underfunded alongside this and officer levels are at breaking point because people can’t afford to be police officers anymore, putting more strain on the NHS to do the jobs they should rightfully be doing but don’t have the numbers to do.
I work as a police officer so see both sides of the coin, morale in hospitals is awful at the minute and it’s scary how underfunded they are, and from my view it’s scary how little crime I actually deal with. On a normal set of shifts I do more welfare checks and attend more incidents of people self harming or threatening to do it than anything else, and in my 50 or so hours of working within that set of shifts I’ve had numerous occasions where I don’t actually deal with a single crime.
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It’s not safe for patients already due to the massive strain on the NHS that’s why they are striking to reiterate that problem!
This is the crunch moment. Now the NHS is bleeding to death from the billion cuts afflicted by the Tories the Tories will try to convince us the NHS doesn’t work and we need the US model.
The NHS works fine, better than the Tories ever hoped. It’s the Tories we need to get rid of.
I absolutely agree with them but I think it’s rather selfish putting so many people at risk.
Its unfortunate money always seems to be the focus when discussion of strikes come up.
For myself and a lot of my colleagues while the money is important and a factor the level of understaffing and workload has become unmanageable which is a danger to patients but also we risk our licenses and careers if something goes wrong.
Pre covid my ward would run ratios of 1:8 days and 1:11 at night, but thanks to shortages as well as having to increase our ward patient numbers, were now 1:12 during day and at times ive been 1: 20 during the night and this is an acute ward, there has been an increase in agency staff that lack needed skills, ive had shifts where im the only core staff member.
All of this gets you to a point where you cant do proper care you can only prioritise the essential stuff, but that means care standards drop, errors increase, deteriorating patients get missed or picked up later, newly qualified staff get no support and burn out.
Imagine you go to work and they tell you your workload has gone up 50% and not only will we not pay you more, if you make a mistake you lose your career, id be a lot more forgiving of the pay if the conditions werent so awful.
The unions ALWAYS say “it’s about safety”. It’s called the Bob Crow defense.
And the Tories response will be to ban striking and offer an expensive private alternative to the NHS.
We need to turn this country around and that means leaving behind market fundamentalism and fiscal conservatism.
Going to assume that the prime motivation of nurses to become nurses is to help people.
In the article they state that wage increases are necessary to retain talent and maintain staffing levels – which contributes to the amount of care you get if you fall ill.
Calling them selfish as some people have done here is truly breathtaking when we’ve been through a pandemic where they had to wage war with a new virus.
I support the nurses fully. The tories have cut and cut the NHS and it is losing blood. The NHS is incredible and has saved countless lives (even saved Boris Johnson’s life) and the tories are still trying to destroy it.
Don’t let them turn our health into profit. Support the strikes!
Also where is that 350m we were promised for the NHS. The party is full of crooks and liars.
I really respect the strikers. On a personal level they could all just say fuck it, im out, go into the private sector and earn more almost anywhere.
But they really believe in the NHS. They are desperate to save it. And this is the only way. By breaking it fully to make it obvious what has happened.
We have sleep walked into so many disasters in this country. We have to stop the rot.
Honestly I think we’re headed to a point of collapse.
The government have underfunded the NHS and police service for years to the point where both are on their knees and one directly affects the other in a symbiotic way.
You have the NHS workers being paid pennies to look after the worst in society and being treat like shit by them, the genuine people needing help/support are left waiting for hours or not accessing the services they need at all, they’re overworked because you can’t exactly ignore your job, but the staffing levels are getting lower because the pay and conditions are fucking shit.
You then have less staff/ambulances on the road so the police end up doing jobs which aren’t suited for them and are acting as either taxi drivers or becoming untrained mental health workers because their first and most important rule is to protect and preserve life, you then have less officers on the street able to do the job they’re paid to do. The police are underpaid, overworked and underfunded alongside this and officer levels are at breaking point because people can’t afford to be police officers anymore, putting more strain on the NHS to do the jobs they should rightfully be doing but don’t have the numbers to do.
I work as a police officer so see both sides of the coin, morale in hospitals is awful at the minute and it’s scary how underfunded they are, and from my view it’s scary how little crime I actually deal with. On a normal set of shifts I do more welfare checks and attend more incidents of people self harming or threatening to do it than anything else, and in my 50 or so hours of working within that set of shifts I’ve had numerous occasions where I don’t actually deal with a single crime.