What’s Your Thoughts On The Nurses Voting For Strike Action?

[Bobbisox1]

https://news.sky.com/story/nurses-set-to-strike-in-first-ever-national-action-as-patients-braced-for-disruption-12739713

Mine are,No they should not be striking , they enter the profession as a vocation knowing the wage scale, they do a marvellous job but I’m against all strikes as they don’t achieve anything, talking and negotiating is the only way forward and our country is in a financial mess anyway so handily out large pay increases will only make it worse

[cashier]

They never mention the 33 days holidays they get or the very generous pension they will get at the end of their working days.

[Togo]

The NHS is currently spending £40 million, yes you read that correctly... £40 million, a year on "Diversity and Inclusion staff". That is a lot of extra nurses or better pay for the existing ones. Almost £770,000 a day(including weekends) on diversity staff. How much is also spent on the woke rubbish that litters the walls of every Hospital ward and reception area, and the infrastructure to accommodate the "staff" that peddle the psycho babble? Who told the NHS that it was in their brief to become a guilt trip and gaslighting wing of the woke brigades? Until our legacy organisations are cleared of the parasitic political and manipulative mind game practitioners we can never reward the deserving with fair remuneration. The people who hold the positions that are purely designed, by themselves, to cause harm and deflect from the real purpose of our NHS need to be dragged out of office just as surely as they have parachuted themselves in to cause harm whilst enriching themselves.

[naomi24]

Well said, Togo.

[Togo]

Said "diversity officers" are paid between £47,000 and £70,000 a year. The enaichess obviously values them more than the front line nurses, even allowing them to "woke from home" when the need(their need) arises. Part of their twisted brief is to lecture, and hector stressed nurses with compulsory though training. Particularly the ones that are not from India or Africa ... obvs.

[davebro]

//The most common grade for NHS nurses is Band 5, which accounts for about 42% of nurses in England.

That's the pay grade for newly qualified nurses - their salaries range between £27,055 and £32,934.//

Not enough? I think it is.

[davebro]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-63746334

//The RCN said it had been given no choice after ministers would not reopen talks, but the government said the 19% pay rise demanded was unaffordable.

RCN general secretary Pat Cullen said: "Ministers have chosen strike action."//

MINISTERS have chosen strike action - I don't think so!

[1ozzy]

A few years ago many videos could be watched of people applauding nurses.
I'd hazard a guess that's been forgotten.
Greedy people that they are,,

[emmie]

i don't think they are so much greedy, but asking for such a pay rise as they are isn't going to happen, nor is it feasible. I watched the news the other evening and one shocking fact came out was the NHS spent 4 billion on agency nurses and doctors in one year, how can that possibly be right.

[1ozzy]

To ensure you all get the medical care you require?
I don't know, perhaps the system isn't working properly.
If an overhaul is required it should start at the top.
Get rid of the fat cats that don't support patients.

[emmie]

they won't get rid of the fat cats, they rule the roost so to speak.

[murraymints]

as has been said ..you know what the job is also the conditions..you have not been pressganged..and despite popular myth nurses are very very well paid ! student nurses not so much but no other students get paid to study !! if you can't manage on your more than respectable salary then you need to resign or get some economic lessons in budgeting..mant many get by on much less...

[emmie]

they should make wholesale changes to the NHS, but they won't because it's sacrilege to diss the whole system. It needs major reform but all the government can do is throw more money at it which gets swallowed by bureaucracy.

[1ozzy]

The fat cats Em.

Hope you don't need nursing care in the near future Minty, it could be rather thin on the ground.

[emmie]

fat cats are management in their thousands.

[1ozzy]

Yep,,

[emmie]

The NHS is the largest employer in England, Scotland... according to one source. almost 2 million between the 2 countries.

[murraymints]

not really Oz it is quite competitive to get onto a nursing course here. there seems to be an interest in folks wanting to train up..doctors not so much..

[murraymints]

..and my experience of nursing staff over the years..and there has been a lot as carer to Alzheimers patient and my late dad..has not always been one of "angels of Mercy "..there have been many fine nurses..but equally as many who did not appear to give a fig..I was left to change the bed of an elderly man, not any relation but a neighbouring bed in ward... that had spilt his drink and more all over his bed..he also needed catheter emptying and new pyjamies on..all of which I did whilst they sat around a nursing sation laughing..and watching..I could write a book on such happenings !

[emmie]

There are now 161,329 people employed by the NHS in Scotland – an increase of 0.4% since June 2015. This continues the steady annual upward trend in the NHS workforce which began in June 2012. The number of medical staff in post was 12,041.1 whole time equivalent (WTE) an increase of 2.1% since June 2015 – and 25.4% higher than September 2006.

which makes me wonder why you can't get appointments to see someone Minty, or have to wait so long.

[murraymints]

GPs are the problem up here emmie.... need referrals to progress to treatment and doctors in General Practice are practically non existent here now