Big rise in absences due to mental health - unsurprisingly. It is being driven to do more and more with less staff and it is just burning people out.
BBC News - NHS staff sickness hits record high in England
https://t.co/uZsyiTNVAG
This just makes it look like they’re stropping, like spoiled children. Nurses are fighting for fair working conditions. Do we want to have enough nurses to look after us, in a tax funded, free at point of use healthcare system? Respect them and pay them.
🔴Nurses are to embark on the most extreme strikes yet, despite hundreds of thousands of health workers backing the Government’s pay offer.
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Nurses are faced with decisions everyday about efficiency and the care and attention they want to give to patients. Their vocation is admirable but why would anyone want to do a job where you get almost no benefits? Doing good doesn’t pay enough to dedicate your life to it.
It is disappointing some RCN members voted for industrial action.
We accepted the recommendations of the independent NHS Pay Review Body in full and have given over one million NHS workers a pay rise of at least £1,400 this year on top of a 3% rise last year.
Nurses can leave if they want to, says Thérèse Coffey.
In an interview, Dr Coffey suggested she would rather replace human staff with Elon Musk’s Tesla robots.
‘By 2030, we want 84% of NHS care to be delivered in the metaverse anyway’ she explained. ‘Nurses will be redundant.’
Barts clearly have their priorities wrong and whoever posted that video is astonishingly naive. But dismissing non-clinical staff as beneath us is exactly the sort of medical supremacy that will tank any IA. We’re on the same side. Get your enemy right, I’m begging you. (3/3)
Sad day reading about working conditions in the NHS. No one should be sitting on a bin, not have space for a break or venture miles away for a coffee. Change can’t always happen quickly but let’s start asking staff what they need so we can at least start. 💙
Those of you who moved to another country as an adult and stayed there, do you also feel like you don't belong anywhere? You're still foreign to your adopted home and a stranger in your home country?