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FatticusInch | 12:06 Thu 06th Oct 2022 | News
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https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63150632.amp

In the current climate I reckon it’s a strong possibility.

/The Royal College of Nursing is balloting all of its UK members for strike action for the first time in its 106-year history.
The union is recommending its 300,000 members walk out over pay, with the result of the ballot due next month.
If strikes go ahead, the RCN says they would affect non-urgent but not emergency care.
The government has urged nurses to "carefully consider" the impact on patients./

……just after it removed the cap on bankers bonuses and attempted to increase the wealth of the top 1% in the country?
As a great character once said:
The impudence, the audacity, the unmitigated gall.

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"The country has a difficult winter ahead but the unions will make sure it’s even more difficult." I don't think we need worry too much now that we have a crack team in place with real world experience and the good of citizens at heart. Reasonable negotiations and not knee-jerk reaction will surely be the order of the day.
16:01 Thu 06th Oct 2022
I have recent experience of nhs , the nursing staff are struggling but still doing the best they can , but my local plague pit hospital is a poorly organised shambles , which is letting them down. Yes they need more money for what they do and to retain them, but I very much doubt that any politician can fix the nhs, it’s broken beyond recovery , time for a plan B
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You totally missed it Zaccy, the speculation was over whether it was criminals on bikes(as in the OP) or whether it was actually a bike they were attempting to steal, hence my ‘too early’ comment, but you missed that in your haste, yet again.
//Yes they need more money for what they do //

Or for what you think they need to endure the particular circumstances you have seen.

NOT more more money to sustain a reasonable standard of living?
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davebro
//Nurses are the middle grade in the NHS and when qualified are paid a pretty decent salary & well above the national average. For them even to consider strike action is an absolute disgrace. Shame on them.//

You do realise though that the ‘hero’ health care assistants will join them though, don’t you?
Doctors too it would seem?
https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o1891

Just greedy scum I guess, not like the noble bankers and millionaires eh?

It worked for the Junior doctors I suppose. 8.2% pay rise over four years.
//Just greedy scum I guess, not like the noble bankers and millionaires eh?//

A few hundred v a few millions. You do the sums.
I’m an NHS worker, my ‘pay rise’ was outstripped by my hike in pension contributions and my net pay has now reduced.
I don't think you'll get much sympathy mentioning an NHS pension. Not that you don't deserve it!
NHS pensions are not what they used to be, they are now calculated on an average salary basis and salaries when I started were fairly stingy.
Personally I think the NHS is due for a damn good shake up and possibly total privatisation. Dunno how that could could work with the current set up & history but deffo summat needs doing. Other (first world) countries have better outcomes with different models.

And no more holding the public to ransom.
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It’s clear from the answers on this thread alone you’ll get no sympathy just for being in the NHS Campbellking, but you certainly have my gratitude.
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What shall we do Davebro, flame-thrower the picket lines, or drop a bomb on RCN Headquarters?
Thanks Fatticus, would agree we could do with some better managers , fewer of them and more staff at ground level
The country has a difficult winter ahead but the unions will make sure it’s even more difficult.
// What shall we do Davebro, flame-thrower the picket lines, or drop a bomb on RCN Headquarters? //

...and in return, patients arriving at A&E can be triaged to find out who they voted for, and Tory voters can be kick straight out, as postulated by a nurse earlier this week......
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// What shall we do Davebro, flame-thrower the picket lines, or drop a bomb on RCN Headquarters? //

/...and in return, patients arriving at A&E can be triaged to find out who they voted for, and Tory voters can be kick straight out, as postulated by a nurse earlier this week....../

She sounds pretty fed up and qualified her remark.
Lost her job too though, understandably.

https://nursingnotes.co.uk/news/nurse-sacked-and-may-face-nmc-after-saying-tory-voters-dont-deserve-to-be-resuscitated/

Maybe she’s encouraging the Tories to attend a private clinic instead if they’re of Davebro’s mindset? Or realise that they need to start paying NHS workers properly?

Either way, the slating the profession is getting on here alone makes one realise why so many have left…..or how they feel about this government?
Imagine being one of the doctors and nurses who kept Boris alive in the pandemic, only to find out he’d been p!$$!ng it up with the cronies in lockdown? Shameful.
What a creature.
"The country has a difficult winter ahead but the unions will make sure it’s even more difficult."

I don't think we need worry too much now that we have a crack team in place with real world experience and the good of citizens at heart.

Reasonable negotiations and not knee-jerk reaction will surely be the order of the day.
In Spain a friend broke his hand - went to A&E, had an operation that night to insert a pin into the broken bone & was discharged next day.

NHS - eat your friggin heart out!
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naomi24
//What a creature.//

Bit strong but then I guess that’s the attitude the Tories have summoned in ordinary working folk eh?
Probably why there’s thousands taking to the streets in very uncivil disobedience according to Davebro?

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