*puts helmet on*
I work in the NHS. For the last 4yrs, in my bit, anyway, we have been losing highly qualified staff and having the posts going to “savings” (for what? Christmas??). We are now at a stage where our part of the service is only being maintained by goodwill and a disregard for the working time directive (by both staff and management). Sure, a degree of “flexi-time” can be accrued but it rarely gets taken within the alloted month and is, usually, lost. Most of my qualified staff put about 4hrs/week in, extra, as unpaid, I often do a bit more than that.
Things are now deteriorating as talk of “reprofiling and downgrading” begins to surface and the enormous amount of goodwill that the staff have shown is, effectively, thrown back in their face. We’ve tried our best to help the Trust get through a bad time and this is the reward for it.
Goodwill is about to do an Elvis.