I bet the MPs will still give themselves a pay rise 🙄
So it’s irresponsible to give nurses more than a 4% payrise because it will stoke inflation, but not remotely irresponsible to give those receiving state pension a massive 10% payrise?
Honestly fuck these guys, and fuck Starmer for agreeing with them.
Give people a break?!? Give people a break!? What about the nurses who worked all through covid, work multiple shifts end-to-end, the same nurses who have been given effective pay cuts for the last 10 years. where the hell is their break? Fuck this cunt of a human being.
Don’t listen to this clown, all he is doing is trying to put working class people against each other.
What’s the plan with this? it’s insane, if the ministers “stand their ground” and win it will so obviously just lead to a higher level of people leaving the profession and the will damage the service for years. If they let the strikes continue you get almost the same result.
For gods sake it’s a frontline service, they should get their arses round that damn table and start offering things like free childcare, parking, long term benefits etc. It’s a shameful failure of government that the strikes exist in the first place.
Just keep striking till the Government fold. They have the power, keep your boot on their necks and win.
Tories know that the most likely deaths caused by strikes will be Boomers… who vote Tory… they will fold.
Here is a little story I posted before
I am the unfortunate soul with 15 years of mental health experience that works 40h a week paid plus about another 15 unpaid after hours finishing my work, worrying about patients and dealing preparing for my next appointment. All that at £23,949 a year. In order to do my job I have completes 1 year long Diploma level 2 in health and social care when I started 15 years ago followed by 1 year diploma level 3 few years later, followed by 2 years Diploma level 5 equivalent to 1st year at university. Followed by countless trainings that taught me how to work with people with different mental health conditions.
During my time in mental health I have had my nose broken by violent patient, I have permanent scar on my forearm from a chunk of flesh that I got bitten out of it by another and have spend 3 months of unable to move my head from a neck injury. I have seen my co-worker put in a wheelchair because of lack of staffing that made it impossible to contain a dangerous situation and have been spat on, kicked, scratched, punched and sworn at countless time. I had my life threatened and had patient describe exactly how they going to rape my children back when I have work in inpatient services.
Since moving to community after all those years of blood, sweat, tears and sleepless nice studying while working full time I earn £200 less than Aldi shop assistant. Is there a wonder we struggle for staff.
In community average appointment takes 1 hour, plus another hour for travel time, and writing down notes from the appointment. That is if nothing happens. I have turn up at a patient house who informed me of taking overdose, this resulted in all my other appointments for that day canceled so when people get frustrated with cancellations it’s not like we do it for shits and giggles. I am now looking at potentially needing to work every other Saturday as overtime when my mortgage renews because otherwise we will just break even with doing nothing else with kids etc.
My partner is a teach assistant her job is equally ungrateful with insane amount she does outside of school that she isn’t paid for. Makes you question quite often why do you even bother. I am making a difference in people’s lives for every bad experience like broken nose there is 10 that are seeing positive changes to patient care but you can only run on good will and passion for some l9ng before burn out when you don’t switch off at home and go to work knowing you will neglect many patients because you can’t work with everyone one in a team of handful of people. We are at a point when people apologise to a team for taking annual leave for kid birthdays because they know it adds extra pressure on the rest of a team.
If we don’t fix it more and more people will be unsupported. My waiting list is measured in months not weeks. Imagine being suicidal and all I can say is I don’t have capacity to physically see you unless I pick up weekend overtime. It’s soul destroying.
What happens when nurses leave the UK or healthcare altogether? What happens when we see a drop in people applying to do nursing degrees? What happens if we see overseas recruitment dry up?
There will come a point where nursing is no longer seen as a desirable profession and that point comes closer the longer the Tories are in charge. We will see no new nurses entering the profession and the old guard will retire, leaving the profession in tatters. It’s already happening in education for similar reasons nurses are leaving: too much for not enough pay. The public need to really think about what this means for their future because nurses take years to train and we will not be able to summon thousands by magic should we ever need to.
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I bet the MPs will still give themselves a pay rise 🙄
So it’s irresponsible to give nurses more than a 4% payrise because it will stoke inflation, but not remotely irresponsible to give those receiving state pension a massive 10% payrise?
Honestly fuck these guys, and fuck Starmer for agreeing with them.
Give people a break?!? Give people a break!? What about the nurses who worked all through covid, work multiple shifts end-to-end, the same nurses who have been given effective pay cuts for the last 10 years. where the hell is their break? Fuck this cunt of a human being.
Don’t listen to this clown, all he is doing is trying to put working class people against each other.
What’s the plan with this? it’s insane, if the ministers “stand their ground” and win it will so obviously just lead to a higher level of people leaving the profession and the will damage the service for years. If they let the strikes continue you get almost the same result.
For gods sake it’s a frontline service, they should get their arses round that damn table and start offering things like free childcare, parking, long term benefits etc. It’s a shameful failure of government that the strikes exist in the first place.
Just keep striking till the Government fold. They have the power, keep your boot on their necks and win.
Tories know that the most likely deaths caused by strikes will be Boomers… who vote Tory… they will fold.
Here is a little story I posted before
I am the unfortunate soul with 15 years of mental health experience that works 40h a week paid plus about another 15 unpaid after hours finishing my work, worrying about patients and dealing preparing for my next appointment. All that at £23,949 a year. In order to do my job I have completes 1 year long Diploma level 2 in health and social care when I started 15 years ago followed by 1 year diploma level 3 few years later, followed by 2 years Diploma level 5 equivalent to 1st year at university. Followed by countless trainings that taught me how to work with people with different mental health conditions.
During my time in mental health I have had my nose broken by violent patient, I have permanent scar on my forearm from a chunk of flesh that I got bitten out of it by another and have spend 3 months of unable to move my head from a neck injury. I have seen my co-worker put in a wheelchair because of lack of staffing that made it impossible to contain a dangerous situation and have been spat on, kicked, scratched, punched and sworn at countless time. I had my life threatened and had patient describe exactly how they going to rape my children back when I have work in inpatient services.
Since moving to community after all those years of blood, sweat, tears and sleepless nice studying while working full time I earn £200 less than Aldi shop assistant. Is there a wonder we struggle for staff.
In community average appointment takes 1 hour, plus another hour for travel time, and writing down notes from the appointment. That is if nothing happens. I have turn up at a patient house who informed me of taking overdose, this resulted in all my other appointments for that day canceled so when people get frustrated with cancellations it’s not like we do it for shits and giggles. I am now looking at potentially needing to work every other Saturday as overtime when my mortgage renews because otherwise we will just break even with doing nothing else with kids etc.
My partner is a teach assistant her job is equally ungrateful with insane amount she does outside of school that she isn’t paid for. Makes you question quite often why do you even bother. I am making a difference in people’s lives for every bad experience like broken nose there is 10 that are seeing positive changes to patient care but you can only run on good will and passion for some l9ng before burn out when you don’t switch off at home and go to work knowing you will neglect many patients because you can’t work with everyone one in a team of handful of people. We are at a point when people apologise to a team for taking annual leave for kid birthdays because they know it adds extra pressure on the rest of a team.
If we don’t fix it more and more people will be unsupported. My waiting list is measured in months not weeks. Imagine being suicidal and all I can say is I don’t have capacity to physically see you unless I pick up weekend overtime. It’s soul destroying.
What happens when nurses leave the UK or healthcare altogether? What happens when we see a drop in people applying to do nursing degrees? What happens if we see overseas recruitment dry up?
There will come a point where nursing is no longer seen as a desirable profession and that point comes closer the longer the Tories are in charge. We will see no new nurses entering the profession and the old guard will retire, leaving the profession in tatters. It’s already happening in education for similar reasons nurses are leaving: too much for not enough pay. The public need to really think about what this means for their future because nurses take years to train and we will not be able to summon thousands by magic should we ever need to.