Superb

[choux]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9755471/NHS-gets-George-Cross-Queen-awards-medal-staff-praises-Covid-heroes-frontline-effort.html*

Congratulations.

[anneasquith]

The George Cross won’t pay rent/ mortgage.

[jno]

pleased to hear it. Easier for the government to dish out medals than money, I suppose.

[Mozz71]

Jno, nothing to do with the government, The George Cross is handed out by the Queen.

[webbo3]

annesquith
\\The George Cross won’t pay rent/ mortgage.//

Scotland are in charge of their own NHS and the queen doesn't pay them.

[DTCwordfan]

Dr. Sqad G.C. has a certain caché to it.......

[TheChair]

Mozz71: "The award of the George Cross by The Queen is made on the advice of the George Cross Committee and the Prime Minister."

[DTCwordfan]

the operative word is 'advice' - she still doles the gong out and that she has handwritten a note to the NHS is an illustration of how much she cares about the award.

[10ClarionSt]

On this basis, everyone should get a medal just for doing their job. 130,000 dead. Great! Here's your reward!

[Sqad]

Thanks DTC but it is Mr Sqad and GC in the medical world is Gonoccocus.....lol.

[Zacs-Master]

10CS, do you really think it’s individual NHS staff or even NHS teams who are responsible for deaths from COVID? If you do, then you display a complete and very unattractive lack of empathy and understanding. Your uneducated ramblings have hit an all time low.

[weecalf]

Will Matty get one two ?

[Ken4155]

Matty's already had his 'one two'.
One; out of a job
Two; out of a marriage
As for the award/ I'm sure if you asked, the majority of NHS staff would sooner have had a decent pay rise. However, the Queen does not have the power to give pay rises.

[davebro]

The average pay of qualified nurses is £33,000 pa. I know that many NHS staff & contractors (HCAs, porters, cleaners etc) are paid much less but I don't think nurses are badly done by - they are used for their emotional cache when pay is an issue.

(And it seems the Doctors are revving up for a strike over pay!)

[bobbinwales]

Surely the NHS pay rise is up to the pay review body, I thought there independent. Goverment would be unwise to refuse to implement it as MPS seem to use the independent review body argument to justify taking theres. Agree that nurses and doctors are well paid and its hard to see how the diffrence between 1% and 3% is worth striking over or will cause the recruitment and retention difficulties with the mass exodus some are claiming will happen

[davebro]

Maybe true as a moral justification but there are 650 MPs and 1.3 million NHS workers!

[Peter Pedant]

// The George Cross won’t pay rent/ mortgage.//
I* am sure little nursey and little docky wd prefer bread in the bank

[youngmafbog]

Fine, now what about the others e.g shop workers (and many others) who carried on - without the PPE or any protection in the early days that NHS had?

Fed up with this all hail the 'amazing' NHS that is anything but.

I wonder what those that havnt been able to get medical treatment for anything but Covid think about this?

[david small]

Pointless, meaningless, gratuitous platitudes. Keep the plebs happy, tosh.

[choux]

I wonder if the Maltese and the Royal Ulster Constabulary felt it was all pointless and meaningless? This is now part of the NHS history and I, for one, am proud of them.

[Sqad]

Yes, I agree with choux......it's a nice and timely gesture.
Nothing more, nothing less.