@DeffoNotADr@Xeon4f145d96s1 Financial recovery targets (the biggest target for strikes), system flow, discharge date targets. the list of things residents make happen in the NHS is huge. (2/2)
@DeffoNotADr@Xeon4f145d96s1 this is the sentiment that devalues residents. residents walking out still has impact on elective work being cancelled. aftercare is just as important as pre-op. and govt targets are being hit, elective surgery backlog, A&E wait times, mental health diagnostic wait times (1/2)
@Xeon4f145d96s1 her locuming is, in fact, the best thing that doctors can do. the alternative that you propose? complete and utter shut down of the healthcare system with patients having sub-par care because every single junior has walked out? the public should not suffer for the govts mistakes
@Xeon4f145d96s1 The strike is a large scale attrition of resources. Yes consultants locuming will earn more, regular rates remain unchanged, but that is perhaps 2/3 more consultants. Think of the scale of money locuming as an SHOs/F1’s it’s not a 50->60 jump it’s a 30/40->70/80 where I work.
@Xeon4f145d96s1 personally, I have not worked locums over strikes (as i am rota’d for those days) but i have encouraged others to locum and BLEED THE GOVT DRY. that’s the whole point of the strike.
@Xeon4f145d96s1 you do realise that locuming during strikes is actually strengthening strike legitimacy and power? it is a sign that a) the govt can and DOES pay us when it needs to and b) the more money the govt has to spend the more they will heed to our demands
I went to the movie by myself and I noticed a young black man slip into the theater once they lowered the lights for the film. Immediately after the movie ended, he slipped out. I think about him sometimes and wonder what that movie meant to him.