| More Tory lunacy 14:44 - Dec 12 with 939 views | HARRY10 |
"NHS trusts have shelled out as much as £5,200 for a single agency doctor shift, in a sign of how desperate the staffing crisis in the health service has become.
The NHS currently has 9,000 vacancies for doctors, with a record 133,000 vacancies in total. Despite the shortages, the Conservative Government this summer cut medical school places by 30 per cent"
After blocking access to much needed medical staff, removing nurses bursaries (now restored is it any wonder there is such a shortage of staff, leaving the NHS to pay through the nose.
How much has been lost to agencies ? What is the net gain/loss through these Tory cuts* ? Never mind the reduction in service to patients and all of us, as money continues to be leached out, as does sewage into the rivers.
This ludicrous and costly privatisation of our public services and utilities continues, as money intended to provide the services ends up in the back pockets of executives and shareholder while all the while they bleat they cannot pay those who actually do the work.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/11/nhs-trusts-paying-agency-doctors
* there maybe a letter n missing |  | | |  |
| More Tory lunacy on 18:06 - Dec 12 with 823 views | HARRY10 |
"As STV reports, she said Scotland was likely to avoid health strikes this week, in part because the Scottish government has been actively involved in trying to reach a pay settlement. She said:
Wes Streeting “The RCN and Unison have said they will call off strikes this week if they are willing to negotiate with them seriously on pay. This is a reasonable offer of compromise that is surely too good to refuse — so what on earth are they playing at?”
Mr Streeting said the government’s “stubborn refusal to engage in serious negotiations shows they are spoiling for a fight” — accused ministers of blaming staff for waiting lists.
“They want to blame nurses, blame paramedics, blame NHS staff for challenges in the national health service which are the direct fault and responsibility of 12 years of Conservative mismanagement "
Curiously there are not these widespread cases of industrial action in the private sector. I wonder why. Are those workers somehow immune from inflation ? Or is it that their employers have recognised what is happening and taken action, whereas the government is back to its old ways of provoking strikes by not engaging in talks ? | | | |
| More Tory lunacy on 19:47 - Dec 12 with 786 views | HARRY10 |
It just got worse
"A “decade of neglect” by successive Conservative administrations has weakened the NHS to the point that it will not be able to tackle the 7 million-strong backlog of care, a government-commissioned report has concluded.
The paper by the King’s Fund health think-tank says years of denying funding to the health service and failing to address its growing workforce crisis has left it with too few staff, too little equipment and too many outdated buildings to perform the amount of surgery needed."
And who drew up this report ?
"The findings are especially embarrassing for the Conservatives because the report was ordered by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) late last year. They are critical of the impact on the NHS of the austerity programme initiated by David Cameron in 2010 and continued by his successor, Theresa May."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/12/decade-of-neglect-means-nhs-unab
"The leaders of Britain’s A&E doctors as well as NHS ambulance service bosses in England have voiced acute concern about the number of patients coming to harm, and even dying, as a direct result of waiting for an ambulance to arrive or to get into A&E or from there into a hospital bed"
The report is due to be published in full later this week | | | |
| More Tory lunacy on 21:55 - Dec 12 with 729 views | Crawfordsboot |
What I don’t understand is:
If the NHS is able to access staff easily enough via agency workers then clearly there are workers available - just that they choose to work for agencies.
If that is indeed the case why not
A. Award NHS staff a decent pay rise
And
B. Ban the NHS from using agencies.
Agency staff would then be unemployed and need to return to the NHS
What am I missing here |  | | |
| More Tory lunacy on 22:00 - Dec 12 with 720 views | HARRY10 |
From this evening
"RCN accuse government of 'belligerence' as talks to avert strike action fail
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) general secretary, Pat Cullen, said the health secretary, Steve Barclay, refused to discuss pay with her at their meeting this evening."
One of the problems this country faces is not so much the Tories, any more in is the Lions wandering down the High Street, but the cnts who let those Lions out.
I posted up a comment a day or so ago about there not being the same widespread strikes in the EU as the UK. Only to have some grovelling capdoffer try to defend his betters, by ..........................confirming the accuracy of my post.
As long as the UK has a mentality of fore lock tugging and wishing the country was back in the days of smog, rickets and TB, where every knew their place these shysters will continue to not only rob the country blind but allow services to be run down
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/12/dismay-almost-third-of-transpenn
Get off your fcking knees you snivellin' redwaller and brexiter gutless whingers | | | |
| More Tory lunacy on 12:15 - Dec 13 with 615 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| More Tory lunacy on 21:55 - Dec 12 by Crawfordsboot |
What I don’t understand is:
If the NHS is able to access staff easily enough via agency workers then clearly there are workers available - just that they choose to work for agencies.
If that is indeed the case why not
A. Award NHS staff a decent pay rise
And
B. Ban the NHS from using agencies.
Agency staff would then be unemployed and need to return to the NHS
What am I missing here |
You're missing the bit where Tory Government policy has been the complete opposite of your A and B, since 2010.
A cut NHS staff pay in real terms
B force NHS Trusts to use Agencies and outsource contracts
Because
C look at how many Tory MPs have partners/husbands/wives who work for Service Agencies, or are Advisors to them themselves, or on the Board, or receive political donations from these companies, or their major shareholders/owners.
Also look at "Misconduct in Public Office" which is still a case law offence, rather than a Statutory Offence, in spite of the Law Commission advising the Cameron Government to bring in a Bill to define it properly. No, they didn't bother, nor pay heed to the follow up Law Commission report. I wonder why? | | | |
| More Tory lunacy on 12:27 - Dec 13 with 607 views | jontysnut |
| More Tory lunacy on 21:55 - Dec 12 by Crawfordsboot |
What I don’t understand is:
If the NHS is able to access staff easily enough via agency workers then clearly there are workers available - just that they choose to work for agencies.
If that is indeed the case why not
A. Award NHS staff a decent pay rise
And
B. Ban the NHS from using agencies.
Agency staff would then be unemployed and need to return to the NHS
What am I missing here |
Lots of doctors (and other health professionals) like the flexibility of locum or agency work, perhaps because of family commitments, or they might be from abroad not looking for a permanent post.
You can do locum work on top of your NHS work
The government tried to cap locum/agencyrates but employers have to use the break glass option because in many areas and specialties there are shortages - it's a sellers market. Once one employer offers more they all have to. If the rate is too low people won't do it.
£5,000 for a weekend sounds a lot, but it could be a consultant doing 2 x 12 hour weekend night shifts at double time. Some lawyers won't get out of bed for £200 an hour.
Total failure of NHS workforce planning since 2012. |  | | |
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