Metalmicky
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As in title - what do folk think?
Is 1% rise in NHS enough?
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Keawyeds
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Not even close.
In January, The Mirror (and others I'm sure) reported that "52,000 NHS staff are off sick with covid" - that will be both those who have it, symptoms of it, or possibly come into contact with it I assume.
Over 850 UK healthcare workers are thought to have died of covid between March and December 2020.
1% and some clapping?
Get Tae Fuck.
In January, The Mirror (and others I'm sure) reported that "52,000 NHS staff are off sick with covid" - that will be both those who have it, symptoms of it, or possibly come into contact with it I assume.
Over 850 UK healthcare workers are thought to have died of covid between March and December 2020.
1% and some clapping?
Get Tae Fuck.
Bob Fleming
Striker
No. Nowhere near.
We can afford it if the tories had the desire. They don't.
We can afford it if the tories had the desire. They don't.
Keawyeds
Striker
Spent too much on PPE that doesn't exist and never existed.
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Lexingtongue
Guest
No, it's an insult.
The bus said there was £350m a week for the NHS iirc
There’s not enough money. It’s all been spent on furlough and self-employment grants to those who continued to work through lockdown and suffered no ill effect on income.
Obviously there are those that need and rightly deserve the help. But there are also so many that have taken the p1ss while NHS staff went into work and cared for those at the worst time of their life, with so many unknowns.
Obviously there are those that need and rightly deserve the help. But there are also so many that have taken the p1ss while NHS staff went into work and cared for those at the worst time of their life, with so many unknowns.
PTR
Striker
They won't strike. At least, not doctors or nurses. Especially not nurses.
David M
Striker
I mean, if they didn't spunk millions ensuring their mates were well looked after...
offmenut
Striker
Nurses should get a far bigger pay rise.
Don't know if all other nhs staff should have one.
If you can't split the pay rise up and make it nurse specific we should still give them all a bigger pay rise.
Must have been horrific them first few months when we knew little about the disease and nurses were going into work with incorrect PPE.
Don't know if all other nhs staff should have one.
If you can't split the pay rise up and make it nurse specific we should still give them all a bigger pay rise.
Must have been horrific them first few months when we knew little about the disease and nurses were going into work with incorrect PPE.
Leon Solent
Striker
Isn't the thread on the Politics board enough?
Of course it's not enough.. the question shoudm be how much is enough. Supposedly about 500m per percentage point rise.. the way we have spent and conscious of purse strings being tight I think a 4% would have appeased most
Ciro_DiMarzio
Winger
Nope. They should get atleast the 2.1% they were supposed to get.
If they hadn’t spent £30bn on track and trace they could’ve doubled the staffing and all given them a pay rise
Tin Soldier
Striker
1% is derisory, the 12% they want is unaffordable
We havent spent 30bn on track and trace.. not even close.. the track and trace element is about 1-2 billion. The testing is the biggest expense.. so far somewhere between 7-10 billion has been spent.. I imagine a million tests a day won't be cheap
