Do you support the RMT?

Just watching Sarah Vine totally mis-representing the issues in the NHS on SKY News papers review. She brings forward the concept that an agency nurse to fill a shift can cost £1.5k and a Doctor up to £5k - she blame management and says it needs a root and branch reform.

Now let us consider that situation - as an NHS manager you are two nurses and one doctor short of fulfilling a legal requirement for a minimum service in s a dept on a shift because the NHS Trust cannot recruit. What do you do? All you can do is recruit bank/agency staff to backfill. That costs what it costs - its not NHS management that is at fault - its a lack of recruitment that is the core but the vile Vine is pushing her paymasters agenda that its NHS management that needs cutting.

Everywhere I have worked a management cull has never worked out well - upper management punch down - they aren't going to do more work as they worked hard to get where they are in their views so the missing layer of middle management means lower management get picked on and they in turn look down. End of the day the stressed NHS staff cannot be asked to fill in for sacked ward management
 
WestGorton said:
Jeremy **** is too busy deregulating the bank's again to spend time on money for people who make a country work.
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Seems odd - he is Chancellor - he has been talking about banks ( his remit ) but also saying he cannot rule out he wouldn't stop nurses from being able to strike - is he the real PM? Are Sunak and Barclay just Eunuchs ?
 
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Public sector workers are not actually as fed up of lack of money but the overwhelming workload. That is my opinion. The NHS is at the epicentre of this. I don't know the in and out of every dispute but at least ordinary people are finding a bit of a voice.
 
bluethrunthru said:
Seems odd - he is Chancellor - he has been talking about banks ( his remit ) but also saying he cannot rule out he wouldn't stop nurses from being able to strike - is he the real PM? Are Suk and Barclay just Eunuchs ?
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No idea who is what but they want to lighten the constraints put in after 2008. That is unforgivable from my own personal experience.
 
bluethrunthru said:
Just watching Sarah Vine totally mis-representing the issues in the NHS on SKY News papers review. She brings forward the concept that an agency nurse to fill a shift can cost £1.5k and a Doctor up to £5k - she blame management and says it needs a root and branch reform.

Now let us consider that situation - as an NHS manager you are two nurses and one doctor short of fulfilling a legal requirement for a minimum service in s a dept on a shift because the NHS Trust cannot recruit. What do you do? All you can do is recruit bank/agency staff to backfill. That costs what it costs - its not NHS management that is at fault - its a lack of recruitment that is the core but the vile Vine is pushing her paymasters agenda that its NHS management that needs cutting.

Everywhere I have worked a management cull has never worked out well - upper management punch down - they aren't going to do more work as they worked hard to get where they are in their views so the missing layer of middle management means lower management get picked on and they in turn look down. End of the day the stressed NHS staff cannot be asked to fill in for sacked ward management
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Spot on re recruitment. As a country we need to look again at grants and tuition fees re skills shortages and make it free to go to university for certain key workers. Nursing, doctors, teachers in shortage subjects for a start. Tie the fees free deal into a return of service so you either do 10 years in the UK public sector or pay your grants/fees back like a student loan. This would genuinely improve the prospects of people here as well as ending the asset stripping of poorer countries in terms of their trained staff.
It'll never happen though because a previous govt persuaded us that free education was bad in the same way that this one is slowly convincing us that free healthcare should go.
 
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