SOS NHS

[RandomJ]

Nursing union the Royal College of Nursing announces first strike in its 106-year history

The RCN had called for its members to receive a pay rise of 5% above the RPI inflation rate, which currently stands at above 12%.

news.sky.com

Good for them. They do such an important and mostly thankless job. My sister was in hospital not too long ago and I could see first hand the NHS creaking and the nurses running around all night, severely short staffed but they still did such an amazing job and made sure my sister was looked after. Pay them what they deserve.

 

[Saddleworth2]

I'm waiting for surgery on a malignant tumour. its just been delayed again. Making generalisations on the NHS is a minefield . Patients can really only comment on their individual snapshots of experience. My recent experiences show that once you get to the clinical care point its amazing but that road is littered with obvious inefficiencies,
At an x ray appointment the nurse called out 20 names of patients who were not there. Clear waste of scarce resources by us the public.
At an outpatient clinic in the past weeks I waited 2 hours beyond my appointed time on both occasions. There were only 2-3 patients waiting but over that 2 hours I saw up to 4 nursing staff ,one cleaner and 2 receptionists just hanging around the desk for 2 hours tittle tattling about their excessive workload and staring at the clock. Organisation of the NHS resources is a huge and unfathomable challenge.

My wife had an op for similar on Monday. She had the same experience. A shambles in the run up but excellent on the day of the operation. Communication processes between the health service and the patient pretty broken. Given wrong information, appointments made that weren’t necessary and operation cancelled that could have been avoided if they had simply listened to her.
I really don’t know how it gets fixed as simply recruiting more medical practitioners where there seems to be such inefficient processes and ineffectual management wont work.

 

[blue44]

I'm ready.
apparantly the 1st strike will be 9th dec,on my rota I'm on a day off that week.
12 years of their austerity and piss taking with the NHS has brought this on.

 

[Don Karleone]

I'm ready.
apparantly the 1st strike will be 9th dec,on my rota I'm on a day off that week.
12 years of their austerity and piss taking with the NHS has brought this on.

Good luck

 

[blue44]

Anyone who needs NHS treatment because they’re pissed, fighting, stupid or have abused their own bodies for years by living off mars bars and benson and hedges should be charged to use it.

There you go. I’ve fixed the NHS.

But no politician is brave enough to say this.

you're a right boring **** you.
i want all my tax back for all the things i dont agree with.
royal family,nuclear weapons,tax dodging companies etc etc etc

people are people,i work in the NHS and do,or have done all those things you mention.

are you perfect ?

 

[blue44]

Odd. I needed patching up in A&E in 2020 after crashing my bike (was fucking terrified of going in there during the pandemic but they were lovely and calmed me down).

Nobody ever sent me ambulance chasing emails. Could be one specific hospital?

me and my mrs felt the same during the pandemic,ie
shitting ourselves if we would get it,she is an HCA and was transferred to ITU where she
worked for 15 months without complaint,saw a close work friend contract and die within 1 month of
getting covid,at the time my mrs was on about £8.50 per hour as she wasn't at the top of her band ,as a new starter.
imagine how we,and thousands of other poor paid nhs workers felt ?
the anxiety was profound,we had a young son too,who was left vulnerable with his parents working in an hospital.

you'll never ever know lad,about being " terrified "

all this after 8 years of 1% pay rises from 2010 to 2018.

 

[Pedestrian]

It’s not fit for purpose. It needs major modernisation. The military is the same. None of it will ever happen. Make do.

 

[blue44]

Every city fan I know you’ve mentioned there

Hope your mrs is ok and doing well J .
another Hero .

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

you're a right boring **** you.
i want all my tax back for all the things i dont agree with.
royal family,nuclear weapons,tax dodging companies etc etc etc

people are people,i work in the NHS and do,or have done all those things you mention.

are you perfect ?

You’re hard.

 

[blue44]

You’re hard.

you're a bore