...will the UK follow?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53398208
C'mon then johnson & hancock, show us you value the NHS; you know, real monetary reward.
Nah - NHS staff should be happy with a clap and a maybe a badge...
Genuine question - would NHS workers want that pay rise, or prefer it to be spent on better resourcing, equipment, PPE...
MCTD - if johnson, hancock & co were serious about the NHS they would do all of it.
C’mon then johnson & hancock, show us you value the NHS
Even though we say that in half-jest, the truth of the matter (hobbling/dismantling/eventual selloff of the NHS) is truly heartbreaking. To the eternal shame of this country.
would NHS workers want that pay rise, or prefer it to be spent on better resourcing, equipment, PPE…
They could do both.
This ^^^^
Anyone who clapped the NHS but votes Tory needs to have a serious word with themselves.
History has shown us that you can never, ever trust a Tory government with the NHS.
Even Labour have been questionable at times but with the Conservatives it's a given.
Vote Tory, *&@# the NHS. Simples.
History has shown us that you can never, ever trust a Tory government
with the NHS
FTFY
Salaries for healthcare workers according to https://www.qunomedical.com/en/research/healthcare-salary-index/
UK:
GP: £127,813
Nurse: £39,967
France:
GP: £113,592
Nurse: £33,361
If you look at the PPP (purchasing power parity) figures the differences are much bigger because the cost of living in France is higher.
So these latest pay increases in France won't even get close to the French healthcare workers catching up with what their UK counterparts are paid.
Nurse on £39,967 😂
No that’s a specialist nurse with a considerable amount of experience
Here use an actual job.
https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/916103857
My wife has been a nurse for 15 years, and is nowhere near 40 grand, don't get me wrong, she's not badly paid, but not that much. I'd imagine that's an upper band Advanced Nurse practitioners salary.
Nurse on £39,967 😂
No that’s a specialist nurse with a considerable amount of experience
In Wales at least to earn that much you'd need to be at least a Band 7. If you're not familiar Band 7 nurses are Ward / Unit heads who'll manage a large team of 'Normal' Nurses or a smaller team of Specialists. Most will have had to have taken a Masters Degree whilst working and will usually have at least a decade of experience, usually more.
Mrs. Jay is a Specialist Nurse even when she reaches the top of Band 6 in Sept can't be paid that much under current salaries. She should reach £37k in April. I'll admit to probably being a bit proud of her, the effort she puts in out and in work and the stuff she can do it amazes me sometimes. My job is comparatively piss-easy, I mean for heavens shake we play GTA in work sometimes, guess which one of us earns more? It's not even close.
These are the bands and years experience:
I have an interest as I'm changing career, not that money is the factor, I work in IT and hate it!
It shouldn’t be a choice between PPE and pay. Hospital staff should be appropriately equipped and staffed. Now they have neither. Therefore it is understandable they are asking for financial compensation.