Reply to: Nurses On Strike

[SueEllen]

Go on strike as a nurse then rake it in freelance...

Desperate NHS pays up to £2,500 for nursing shifts

Only works if you live in an area where there are multiple hospital trusts you can get to easily.

I know - well related to - nurses who did bank work.

[_V_]

Why don't go contractors go on strike until IR35 is revoked?

PS God my typing is rubbish, took me about a minute to correct all the errors in above.
PPS And another minute to correct the errors in that PS.
PPS And...

Because contractors are money grabbing scum and as soon as one went on strike, another would step in and take the money.

[xoggoth]

Why don't contractors go on strike until IR35 is revoked?

PS God my typing is rubbish, took me about a minute to correct all the errors in above.
PPS And another minute to correct the errors in that PS.
PPS And...

[DealorNoDeal]

A few years ago, my wife had a serious condition requiring surgery, and we looked into going to a private hospital but we couldn't find one that was able to treat her.

Unfortunately, at the local NHS hospital, there wasn't even the option of paying for a private room. She was in a surgical ward which, due to a shortage of beds, ended up as a holding area for bed-blocking dementia patients. Some of them were awake in the middle of the night, wandering around the ward, stumbling into patients recovering from surgery. It was a nightmare but, on the plus side, it did have the effect of making my wife get well enough to come home PDQ.

I get the impression that for the really serious life-threatening tulip, the NHS is the only option.

[d000hg]

Glad I took out private health insurance a couple of months back. Hmmm. Maybe the private system will be logged as well with more people accessing it.

Not going to help much if you have an emergency. It's quite scary the volume of stories about people who never saw an ambulance arrive. You just kind of assume that if you call 999 help will arrive.

[d000hg]

Go on strike as a nurse then rake it in freelance...

Desperate NHS pays up to £2,500 for nursing shifts

[SueEllen]

Aslef - train drivers

PCS - civils servants

Are now going on strike.

[SueEllen]

Glad I took out private health insurance a couple of months back. Hmmm. Maybe the private system will be logged as well with more people accessing it.

There are actually delays with private healthcare at the moment but obviously not like the NHS.

[_V_]

Glad I took out private health insurance a couple of months back. Hmmm. Maybe the private system will be logged as well with more people accessing it.

Anyone without good private medical cover has a death wish under this govt.

[xoggoth]

Glad I took out private health insurance a couple of months back. Hmmm. Maybe the private system will be logged as well with more people accessing it.

[tazdevil]

Sadly the NHS needs reform but no one has the balls to do it

Trouble is people would whinge that you're trying to privatise it, the opposition would simply whinge, the media would be totally unsupportive and out to undermine the reforms, the unions would be no way Jose, the nurses would have a fit and undermine any changes and the bureaucracy would churn any positivity to negative dust It's the way things work which is why we get inept politicians as who would want the job just to get tulipe

[vetran]

can they not just use some of those 350 millions a week that the nhs receives now that brexit got done?

it was written on a bus so it must have been true.

oh they have already had that, its been spent, now they have their hand out for more.

Sadly the NHS needs reform but no one has the balls to do it

[PCTNN]

can they not just use some of those 350 millions a week that the nhs receives now that brexit got done?

it was written on a bus so it must have been true.

[_V_]

Govt: People, go outside and clap for the NHS
People: Okay, what will you do?
Govt: We will scam billions of NHS money into our filthy pockets through fake procurement into scam companies we are connected to.
People: Okay, sounds a fair deal!

[SueEllen]

Who told them? Would that be a manager from one of the many layers governments have put in place instead of medical staff.

Some of the managers were/are medical staff.