The government has now decided it can tell us what we can and can’t do on our days off.
Not sure that’s legal,
Would be interesting to see if it survives a legal challenge by a union lawyer.
This will not result in NHS staff earning less agency shifts it will result in NHS staff quitting and working agency only
But MP’s can work second jobs?
The government are laughing at us.
Surely it should be a choice. Personally I wouldn’t choose to work agency shifts but each to their own.
So after saying they were going to ban overtime in the rail industry and walking it back as it was absurd, they are trying to do a similar thing with NHS staff?
Most agency is filled with nhs staff working above their hours to top up their salaries. Whats going to happen to the huge number of unfilled critical posts now? Close the hospital?
I’m not against this.
Agency nurses are usually a last resort, you pay more for less quality, most of the costs go to the agency not the nurse, and the nurse has no accountability towards the team they’re working for because all feedback gets dealt with externally by the agency. There are some really fantastic agency nurses but most of them dial it in for the paycheck and some of them are dangerous.
I’ve also long held suspicions that there are some sort of incentive or kickback for trusts opting for certain agencies, who often will get preferential rates in return for offering agency shifts over a longer leadup time (they are meant to be last resort), these are also typically the agencies with a lower calibre of nurse, often not suited to the clinical environment they’re booked in for.
I’d like to see agency banned altogether (or so heavily regulated its a headache) and see the money we save, which will be a tonne, on increasing safe staffing numbers across the board. Fundamentally if staff bank paid competitive rates we wouldn’t even need to think about agency.
In ED during COVID our bank rates went up to match ITU (£38 an hour regardless of band or shift) and we had all our own staff on every shift. The minute it went back to pre-COVID rates (£18-23 an hour for B5 specialist, depending on shift), nobody wants to pick up a monday or tuesday night, cos they’re horrible, surprise surprise we have half our roster as agency, and pay double whatever the hourly rate is for the priviledge.
The agency pay is far more lucrative. If standard NHS wages are not enough to live on people will jump ship.
Ideally the money saved by not using agency staff would go to nurse’s pay but under the Tories that will not happen.
Unless pay goes up as standard all that will happen is nurse’s will work quit the NHS and go agency only.
would they need extra agency shifts, if earnings were in line with the cost of living?
That sucks, Mrs does a bit of agency work when we want to book a holiday
When are we picking up our pitchforks? Country should go to a complete standstill until these tory cunts abandon power and just do the election already
They now they will lose the next election and are squeezing out as much as they can before they go
>Under plans NHS staff will be limited to working additional shifts via less-costly NHS staff banks.
Wasnt this the idea of NHSP which has been around since the early 2000s?
The idea lasts until noone picks up a shift for base rate and it *needs* covering. Ie 5 minutes.
Another vehicle to suppress internal bank rates by a monopoly employer.
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The government has now decided it can tell us what we can and can’t do on our days off.
Not sure that’s legal,
Would be interesting to see if it survives a legal challenge by a union lawyer.
This will not result in NHS staff earning less agency shifts it will result in NHS staff quitting and working agency only
But MP’s can work second jobs?
The government are laughing at us.
Surely it should be a choice. Personally I wouldn’t choose to work agency shifts but each to their own.
So after saying they were going to ban overtime in the rail industry and walking it back as it was absurd, they are trying to do a similar thing with NHS staff?
Most agency is filled with nhs staff working above their hours to top up their salaries. Whats going to happen to the huge number of unfilled critical posts now? Close the hospital?
I’m not against this.
Agency nurses are usually a last resort, you pay more for less quality, most of the costs go to the agency not the nurse, and the nurse has no accountability towards the team they’re working for because all feedback gets dealt with externally by the agency. There are some really fantastic agency nurses but most of them dial it in for the paycheck and some of them are dangerous.
I’ve also long held suspicions that there are some sort of incentive or kickback for trusts opting for certain agencies, who often will get preferential rates in return for offering agency shifts over a longer leadup time (they are meant to be last resort), these are also typically the agencies with a lower calibre of nurse, often not suited to the clinical environment they’re booked in for.
I’d like to see agency banned altogether (or so heavily regulated its a headache) and see the money we save, which will be a tonne, on increasing safe staffing numbers across the board. Fundamentally if staff bank paid competitive rates we wouldn’t even need to think about agency.
In ED during COVID our bank rates went up to match ITU (£38 an hour regardless of band or shift) and we had all our own staff on every shift. The minute it went back to pre-COVID rates (£18-23 an hour for B5 specialist, depending on shift), nobody wants to pick up a monday or tuesday night, cos they’re horrible, surprise surprise we have half our roster as agency, and pay double whatever the hourly rate is for the priviledge.
The agency pay is far more lucrative. If standard NHS wages are not enough to live on people will jump ship.
Ideally the money saved by not using agency staff would go to nurse’s pay but under the Tories that will not happen.
Unless pay goes up as standard all that will happen is nurse’s will work quit the NHS and go agency only.
would they need extra agency shifts, if earnings were in line with the cost of living?
That sucks, Mrs does a bit of agency work when we want to book a holiday
When are we picking up our pitchforks? Country should go to a complete standstill until these tory cunts abandon power and just do the election already
They now they will lose the next election and are squeezing out as much as they can before they go
>Under plans NHS staff will be limited to working additional shifts via less-costly NHS staff banks.
Wasnt this the idea of NHSP which has been around since the early 2000s?
The idea lasts until noone picks up a shift for base rate and it *needs* covering. Ie 5 minutes.
Another vehicle to suppress internal bank rates by a monopoly employer.