Not content with running down staffing levels, running up patient throughput, aiming for lethal 100% bed occupancy rates, and putting huge numbers of new nurses on the scrapheap (where they should get a good view of the NHS sinking like a fucking stone with all lives lost), the fuckers are underpaying nurses by 11%.
This is not limited to nurses, of course. All front line NHS employees work many more hours than they are paid. That's why every time those fat, sweaty useless fucks that call themselves 'politicians' negotiate a new contract to 'control' us, they find out that being paid for the work done means a big pay rise for no extra work. Stupid fucks.
I guess if you are a useless, lying, narcisist in a suit you might find the idea that almost everyone works flat out, often for free, for the good of patients a tad hard to swallow. A few days on the wards would kill most non-NHS workers from sheer fucking exhaustion.
Still, at least being at work unpaid and overworked leaves you less time to dwell on media stories about how public service workers are all inefficient, overpaid, underworked, lazy, useless fecks.
I really, really fucking hate those bastards.
Friday, May 23, 2008
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Hooray - couldn't have put it better myself - thank you (from a nurse)
My Nursing/physio colleagues won't actually take TOIL because it would add up to too much?!
The sister will have a huge amount of extra hours but pay herself half.
If everyone actually got paid overtime or took TOIL then, and only then, will management take notice, hopefully.
Oh, how it annoys the hell out of me when staff don't take what they are entitled to. In the NHS some staff work for free.
The ground force staff of the NHS never did have a business degree and that's exactly what the NHS is now. A business. It's not a caring facility.
I work less hours with patients now than I did 12 years ago. I spend the rest of the time with /KPI's/monitoring/training and making up stats etc.
I am the best trained OT in the world. I just haven't got the time to put it into practice!
Damn right.
most people in the private sector outside the health business work a hell of a lot more hours than they are contracted for or paid for, its par for the course, stop fucking winghing, and of course in the private sector there is no golk plated government guaranteed pensions
really they market needs breaking down so that each and every medical organisation is competing for staff with different financial offers as much as anything, and different T & Cs
monlythic pay and conditions across the whole country just do not work
and yea let some competition shut the crap hospitals and take out the worst management teams with it
To Right..as pissed off ICU nurse all health professionals (and not ruddy managers need a pay rise), Im talking about porters, catering staff, domestics, xray staff and all the people who actually do something useful (okay..you could argue that porters are not health professionals, but they do a dammned site more for patients than any number of bloody useless managers and deserve better than the pitance they get). I work in a unit that is runing at 100 - 150% occupany.....I can hear all the numerologists screaming "you can have more than 100% occupany"..well you can in the NHS, especially in a stripped down DGH ICU. WE have four beds which are funded and staffed. However we also have three extra beds and equipment that are not to be used. So when our gasmen and gasladies phone to say "we have a patient, can we admit them"...there is a sudden hunt for an icu bed..."Mr Gasman / Mrs Gaslady...we have four patients already, can the patient be transferred to another ICU several light years away" (all the while knowing full well this is crap and the patient is nearly expired or will be soon if they dont get ICU - so another nurse is getting the bedspace ready, drugs out, pat slide and all the bits and bobs needed). The usual response from the Gas people is "NO..they are blah, blah,blah, theyll need tubed, inotropes, sedation etc, etc.. and do you have staff". Our reponse is "Bring the patient, we are ready.. and guess what - the evil bastards in charge wont give us an extra nurse, we have four nurses for four patients, no-one has had any breaks, and i need a pee, but, yes bring the patient".....or, if we are lucky we have grudging permission to go to extra hours (permission granted by a nhs manager who is earning thrice what the senior nurse on duty is earning but has never do any work at all on the floor), so we phone the usual suspects...Nurse slightly strange but very competent, Nurse smells a bit funny but is really very good, Nurse chain smoker and no boyfriend and Nurse who comes to work to escape from children...one of these characters will answer the call, drop everything and come to work. It doesnt matter that they have already worked 40 plus hours already. It doesnt matter what time you phone these nurses - one will come in a help, often missing breaks, working extra and longer to help......BUT, the goodwill is fading, every day they get phoned, every day the staff are going without breaks, looking after two level 3 patients, running after gasmen and gas ladies, dealing with surgeons who are running around like toddlers, the harassed A&E reg (who is fancied by all the female staff) but really fancies the male gasman (he ho, its a modern world), the med reg who is a having a tantrum cos the elderly lady with COPD is deteriorating and there aint a ICU bed on this side of the galaxy, the unhinged midwifes who need a gas person NOW!!!. All these can be pacified or at least fobbed off with reasonable explanations - or in the case of the midwife the ritual sacrifice of a very junior member of staff. It is the clinical manager who is the most difficult to deal with, lets add another four peices of paperwork, another clinical audit on the neccesity of clinical audits, cut staffing by another band5 - afterall if four are not coping, it must be because they are lazy, so trimming the numbers just means they work harder, more paperwork and a severe ticking off to those staff who actually care for a patient.
Lots of Love...Nurse who wears brightly coloured shoes to annoy the clinical manager
Splendid post, wearer of brightly coloured shoes.
Nurses do not work very hard and are paid appropriately for their abilities.
Of course Rant and pals could take a pay cut so they can be paid more but that’s very unlikely to happen.
How easy it is to be outraged with your snout in the trough!
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