The Tories will probably just whinge about Labour not controlling the unions or blame it all on Corbyn. They have no ability or interest in solving the nation’s problems.
Yup, the Drs really need to get a sense of perspective
Well use that £290 million the Government have wasted pretending to stop the boats on something actually worthwhile to give them a decent payrise
Too long they have used patients as a weapon to abuse the doctors goodwill. Insane hours and meagre pay.
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A pay rise isn’t going to completely solve the mess that’s the NHS.
Yeah settle the dispute, give then however much they are asking for, then raise everybody’s taxes to cover the cost. Do the same with train workers, teachers, etc. Then we will see just how little everybody has to survive on by paying more tax
Over 65’s predominently vote conservative ( yesterdays Reddit post …2/3rds in fact ) So these are the likely casualties here.
The Tories don’t care. They’ll have private health insurance and money to deal with any health issues. If it doesn’t personally benefit them, they’re not interested.
I really feely sad for all of the patients who will miss a treatment or surgery! But for God sake England is one of the least countries in the western world in terms of healthcare expenditure! We spend half of what Americans do per capita!
Do No Harm. I’d argue withdrawing labour to make a point is doing harm.
For anyone against strikes (and im not talking just on here, but you see it on other social media platforms too), no offence but they dont know what there talking about as they probably dont work in the NHS.
I work in NHS admin but also know people who work in hospitals. The pay isnt great. You can get more money for the same job privately. But we want to do a good job and help people. No on wants to strike (it effects staff and patients) and its a last resort because without change the NHS will crumble.
We lose staff to private companies who offer better pay. Good staff too. We cant replace those staff because no one wants the job. We have advertised and literally had zero applicants. Or the ones that do arent any good. Thats assuming we have the budget to replace them after cuts.
So you have the same work level now with less staff. What does that mean? Overworked, tired, stressed staff making mistakes. Eventually they crack and go off on stress leave (no exaggeration last year around 50% of our staff were off with stress). And then the cycle continues.
So anyone that say there holding patients to random to line there own pockets havent a clue
I hope they’re not banking on their negotiations hinging on whether the government cares that lots of people die.
Thousands with cancer die early anyway. But apparently 14 years of the Tories fucking the NHS into the ground isn’t the problem, it’s 1 strike.
It’s coming a year late but I said at the start of lockdown that cancer patients will feel the strain on the NHS in 2023 we’d see unnecessary suffering and death through pointless squabbling over resources.
From an IT perspective, the NHS seems poorly structured with ballooning local trust setups and clones of different solutions implemented. I often wonder what else suffers from this poor efficiency.
My view is that the frontline workers do need to be paid more, I don’t see that as a debate. But the NHS takes almost 1/10 of our total GDP. So what do you do? Pouring more money into it isn’t the answer and we have to be realistic about this. Someone smarter than all of us needs to drill down into the infrastructure that supports this mess of a health system and make it work for us, for the employees.
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The Tories will probably just whinge about Labour not controlling the unions or blame it all on Corbyn. They have no ability or interest in solving the nation’s problems.
Yup, the Drs really need to get a sense of perspective
Well use that £290 million the Government have wasted pretending to stop the boats on something actually worthwhile to give them a decent payrise
Too long they have used patients as a weapon to abuse the doctors goodwill. Insane hours and meagre pay.
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A pay rise isn’t going to completely solve the mess that’s the NHS.
Yeah settle the dispute, give then however much they are asking for, then raise everybody’s taxes to cover the cost. Do the same with train workers, teachers, etc. Then we will see just how little everybody has to survive on by paying more tax
Over 65’s predominently vote conservative ( yesterdays Reddit post …2/3rds in fact ) So these are the likely casualties here.
The Tories don’t care. They’ll have private health insurance and money to deal with any health issues. If it doesn’t personally benefit them, they’re not interested.
I really feely sad for all of the patients who will miss a treatment or surgery! But for God sake England is one of the least countries in the western world in terms of healthcare expenditure! We spend half of what Americans do per capita!
Do No Harm. I’d argue withdrawing labour to make a point is doing harm.
For anyone against strikes (and im not talking just on here, but you see it on other social media platforms too), no offence but they dont know what there talking about as they probably dont work in the NHS.
I work in NHS admin but also know people who work in hospitals. The pay isnt great. You can get more money for the same job privately. But we want to do a good job and help people. No on wants to strike (it effects staff and patients) and its a last resort because without change the NHS will crumble.
We lose staff to private companies who offer better pay. Good staff too. We cant replace those staff because no one wants the job. We have advertised and literally had zero applicants. Or the ones that do arent any good. Thats assuming we have the budget to replace them after cuts.
So you have the same work level now with less staff. What does that mean? Overworked, tired, stressed staff making mistakes. Eventually they crack and go off on stress leave (no exaggeration last year around 50% of our staff were off with stress). And then the cycle continues.
So anyone that say there holding patients to random to line there own pockets havent a clue
I hope they’re not banking on their negotiations hinging on whether the government cares that lots of people die.
Thousands with cancer die early anyway. But apparently 14 years of the Tories fucking the NHS into the ground isn’t the problem, it’s 1 strike.
It’s coming a year late but I said at the start of lockdown that cancer patients will feel the strain on the NHS in 2023 we’d see unnecessary suffering and death through pointless squabbling over resources.
From an IT perspective, the NHS seems poorly structured with ballooning local trust setups and clones of different solutions implemented. I often wonder what else suffers from this poor efficiency.
My view is that the frontline workers do need to be paid more, I don’t see that as a debate. But the NHS takes almost 1/10 of our total GDP. So what do you do? Pouring more money into it isn’t the answer and we have to be realistic about this. Someone smarter than all of us needs to drill down into the infrastructure that supports this mess of a health system and make it work for us, for the employees.