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Ambulance Strike
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If they are still on strike over Christmas and New Year festivities, what will happen to all the paralytic drunks who have collapsed outside the pub, in the gutter?
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Are you thinking of the drunk tanks that were set up during the Christmas period pre-covid?
They were funded by the NHS https:/
They were funded by the NHS https:/
Conspiracy theorists might suggest that wily politicians are keen to let industrial inaction play out to a conclusion that clears the way for reform or even a total reorganisation of healthcare to feather the nests of private medical companies and beggar the patient an their needs.
A new tax may also be in the pipeline to pay for it all with charges at the point of use, on top of what's already coming in.
Go on, tell me I'm wrong and those caring besuited clowns in London care about me and mine.
A new tax may also be in the pipeline to pay for it all with charges at the point of use, on top of what's already coming in.
Go on, tell me I'm wrong and those caring besuited clowns in London care about me and mine.
It was an evening in November,
As I very well remember,
I was strolling down the street in drunken pride,
But my knees were all a-flutter,
And I landed in the gutter
And a pig came up and lay down by my side.
Yes, I lay there in the gutter
Thinking thoughts I could not utter,
When a lady passing by did softly say
‘You can tell a man who boozes
By the company he chooses’—
And the pig got up and slowly walked away.
As I very well remember,
I was strolling down the street in drunken pride,
But my knees were all a-flutter,
And I landed in the gutter
And a pig came up and lay down by my side.
Yes, I lay there in the gutter
Thinking thoughts I could not utter,
When a lady passing by did softly say
‘You can tell a man who boozes
By the company he chooses’—
And the pig got up and slowly walked away.
It's a myth that Nurses and Ambulance staff are poorly paid.
Links to the salaries of nurses have been regularly provided to prove they are not poorly paid (and that's aside from their overtime and agency pay for those that choose to do one or both), so I won't bother providing another link, but for ambulance staff, the average pay is £46k, again, not including overtime; granted there'll be outliers, there always are, but £46k ain't bad.
A Band 7 Nurse (a Sister) average basic is £44k, and the RCN is suggesting, with a straight-face, that his or her salary should be increased by almost £8.5k. Even the most ardent supporters must agree that's nuts surely?
Those nurses and paramedics choosing to strike are making a conscious decision to allow people to die - not quite the angels and heroes we're always being told they are!
There was a former Trust Chairman on the radio this morning, and he stated that a staggering 48% of the NHS payroll is on non-clinical staff. I found that absolutely shocking. Of course non-clinical staff are needed, as are managers, but there needs to be a cull of the non-jobs. For instance, earlier in the year there was a Trust's LBGTQWERTY+ Chief whining about something or other (natch) who was probably on at least £100k. The chap said in the Trust he previously chaired, there was a role advertised for a "Life Lived Director" on £100k. It turns out this was a role to obtain patient feedback on the Trust's mental health services. These are non-jobs.
Links to the salaries of nurses have been regularly provided to prove they are not poorly paid (and that's aside from their overtime and agency pay for those that choose to do one or both), so I won't bother providing another link, but for ambulance staff, the average pay is £46k, again, not including overtime; granted there'll be outliers, there always are, but £46k ain't bad.
A Band 7 Nurse (a Sister) average basic is £44k, and the RCN is suggesting, with a straight-face, that his or her salary should be increased by almost £8.5k. Even the most ardent supporters must agree that's nuts surely?
Those nurses and paramedics choosing to strike are making a conscious decision to allow people to die - not quite the angels and heroes we're always being told they are!
There was a former Trust Chairman on the radio this morning, and he stated that a staggering 48% of the NHS payroll is on non-clinical staff. I found that absolutely shocking. Of course non-clinical staff are needed, as are managers, but there needs to be a cull of the non-jobs. For instance, earlier in the year there was a Trust's LBGTQWERTY+ Chief whining about something or other (natch) who was probably on at least £100k. The chap said in the Trust he previously chaired, there was a role advertised for a "Life Lived Director" on £100k. It turns out this was a role to obtain patient feedback on the Trust's mental health services. These are non-jobs.
Plenty of loot for the white elephant mind.
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I bet they’ll locate the loot for that.
https:/
I bet they’ll locate the loot for that.
// It's a myth that Nurses and Ambulance staff are poorly paid. //
Since most NHS Trusts decided not to strike last Thursday, I'd have to agree with you.
Markedly was the ballot held by the RC of Midwives. This fell short of the required 50% of members supporting industrial action.
As a consequence, midwives could only picket in Wales.
Since most NHS Trusts decided not to strike last Thursday, I'd have to agree with you.
Markedly was the ballot held by the RC of Midwives. This fell short of the required 50% of members supporting industrial action.
As a consequence, midwives could only picket in Wales.
