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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
whats interesting is that after all the clap the nhs nonsense during the pandemic the media are now trying to scare the public into hating that very same nhs
Pay the nhs what they require to keep them happy and motivated doing their job and there wouldn't be any strikes
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The press could do a much better job of making the public aware of just how bad the recruitment crisis currently is as well. People know staffing is bad now, but they have no idea what's on the horizon. Nursing is a stressful job with large amounts of responsibility - especially beyond the entry bands. Exhausted staff knowing that if they make a mistake while burnt out, someone could lose their life and they could lose their career over ngiht.
If it isn't an attractive career prospect, quite simply, fewer and fewer people are going to do it. What that actually looks like in terms of death toll year-on-year is absolutely massive. Services are already stretched to breaking point and it got worse through covid - waiting lists increased, some staff had simply had enough and quit. People are already dying because of it, they do report on that. They don't report that more people leave the profession than join it every year. The crisis is massive and looming, and will make a couple of 24h strikes look like nothing at all. Worried about no staff in A&E and cancer wards for a few days this month? In less than a decade the staff simply won't exist to strike, at all.
Even if you're pro-privatisation it means nothing. You could privatise the entire system tomorrow and make us all pay an insurance model and THEN the provate companies would pay the nurses more, most likely, as they do in the US. You're still up **** creek if you need emergency care in the next decade because there
won't be any trained or experienced nurses to hire for another decade.