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[Manchester33]

My mum had to go to the eye hospital in town last week. Got there at 1am. Got told the wait for emergency care was 9 hours and she was asked to return in the morning (they held her place in the queue).

Apparently, the nurse talking to everyone was getting bollocked by people in there.

I genuinely don't know why anyone would work for the NHS. It must be the most stressful organization to work for in the world.

 

[GornikDaze]

Hospital Trust Mrs GD comes under did not make the 50% needed for strike action. She is more than happy

 

[metalblue]

There was an oversupply of nurses in the first decade of this century, as on the diploma (not the degree which few did) you got grant and fees fully paid, which you didn't for almost any other higher education course. Also the work places didn't count towards staffing quota numbers.

When fees became payable and the grant remove, that caused the shortage more than anything else. Now to bridge the gap they are promoting Nursing Associates.

Your last paragraph is spot on. It was a brilliant scheme…I know people who are nurses now who could never have trained without it, was criminal to have stopped it. Even Mrs MB got the minimum grant with was around £1200 or so from memory - mind you some of the books she needed were £200 or more and of course never available in the library

 

[metalblue]

Hospital Trust Mrs GD comes under did not make the 50% needed for strike action. She is more than happy

Mrs MB’s trust did vote to but she won’t be striking either. She didn’t vote and thinks she’s paid decently.

She’s no longer a member of RCN as she said they did nowt for her subs but was impressed with unison this week who was giving out lunch vouchers to members so she might be tempted to join them…she’s easily brought ;)

 

[GornikDaze]

Mrs MB’s trust did vote to but she won’t be striking either. She didn’t vote and thinks she’s paid decently.

She’s no longer a member of RCN as she said they did nowt for her subs but was impressed with unison this week who was giving out lunch vouchers to members so she might be tempted to join them…she’s easily brought ;)

If there is a free lunch going I might be tempted myself! Mrs GD clearly thinks the same as your wife. She voted not to strike and received several calls from the RCN trying to persuade her to change her mind

 

[metalblue]

If there is a free lunch going I might be tempted myself! Mrs GD clearly thinks the same as your wife. She voted not to strike and received several calls from the RCN trying to persuade her to change her mind

Cheeky gits.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Question for those who aren’t striking, will they turn a pay rise down then if/when it happens? Whilst I respect you can vote whether to strike or not, if you are happy with your lot, then there should be a system where you don’t get the rise if it happens.

 

[hilts]

Question for those who aren’t striking, will they turn a pay rise down then if/when it happens? Whilst I respect you can vote whether to strike or not, if you are happy with your lot, then there should be a system where you don’t get the rise if it happens.

I think there should be a union scheme where strikers should get financial support repayable by employees to cover wage loss. Some workers though are just fucking odd

 

[Blue Maverick]

I think there should be a union scheme where strikers should get financial support repayable by employees to cover wage loss. Some workers though are just fucking odd

I know in the fire service there is a hardship fund via the union, I just think scabs shouldn’t the same on the back of others And when I call people scabs it is those that cross a picket line, I find it strange that in the NHS each trust seems to be different, I thought it would be done on the union membership not location. It would make it easier if the trust went on strike and won a pay rise just that trust should get it and you can’t suddenly move trusts to get the higher wage, I know that unworkable but it just pisses me off when others benefit from others hardship.

 

[oldius]

Health and education have been decimated by this government and retention rates would be considered an abject failure in any commercial enterprise. The cost of swathes of people leaving an industry are almost immeasurable and create such pressure that those that replace them do not want to stay. This will take huge amounts of listening, action and investment and I don't think that this government has any intention of doing any of those things. We await the promised 40 new hospitals and 6,000 new GP surgeries, just as two examples.