Another aspect to the staffing crisis in the NHS; the excessive billing for nurses (check out the surplus kept by the agency) providing flexible, emergency shift cover.
The mismanagement of the health service is draining cash out of the system & putting it in private firms' pockets....
And no, its not a bug in the system, its a feature; its classic Tory wrecking.
And any claims by the Tories they're going to end such 'profiteering' should be ignored!
Tonight I'll toast to the AstraZenica #vacine. It was the first one available, and saved millions of lives. I am glad that my first #COVID19 shot was theirs. 💉
“An agency providing last-minute freelance nurses to NHS hospitals is routinely charging up to £2,000 a shift.” Excellent business model for privatised NHS services. #NHS
Ghost sign for the Royal Hospital for Sick Children on Old Dumbarton Road in Glasgow. The city's first dedicated children's hospital, it originally opened in 1882 in Garnethill. In 1914, it moved to new premises in Yorkhill in the West End of Glasgow where it remained until it was replaced by the new Royal Hospital for Children on Govan Road in 2015.
So now cash-strapped NHS trusts are being required to balance their books, and as such are being forced to choose between repairing buildings or retaining staff.
This engineered crisis of the NHS looks to be accelerating as the Tories use their last months in Govt. to squeeze the health service some more & ensure the maximum mess for Labour to deal with on gaining power (a mess so big the Tories will soon start blaming Labour for not clearing it up).
Hospitals are being forced to cut medical staff, threatening their ability to care for patients.
NHS leaders had been recruiting medical staff as part of their efforts to tackle the waiting list backlog, one of Rishi Sunak’s five pledges, but say they are now being told their priority must be to balance the books.
Unless govt funds the recent nurses and doctors pay rises in full, NHS Trusts are bound to be in deficit. The war on the NHS continues.
"oh but my local tory councillor is a lovely person doing great work in the community..." doesn't matter. they're still part of a party that has completely and utterly shagged this country for the last 14 years, a party that welcomes racists, islamophobes, tax dodgers, sexual predators with open arms, gave you #brexit, #austerity, systematically dismantled the #nhs... if your local councillor is such a stand-up person, ask yourself why... #LocalElections#toryScum#neverKissedATory
It's hard to believe we live in a world where Diabetics have to ration their insulin supply or risk death, despite the drug being developed for more than 40 years.
Before you give too much credit to Dan Poulter (MP & doctor) for abandoning the Tories to join Labour, don't forget he's been an MP for 14 years & been working as a doctor all that time.... so one might have expected him to notice the Tory engineered crisis in the NHS quite some time before now.
No, he's defecting because he can see the Tory electoral meltdown coming & wants to preserve his happy position of having two well-paying jobs.
In a pattern that is repeated across a range of recent (and not so recent) political policy scandals, it seems the Govt. of the day was warned that blood products from the USA should be assumed to be virus-laden.... but lacking 'conclusive proof' the Govt. did nothing other than pass on the plasma, with devastating & fatal consequences.
Each scandal has its own Cassandra's warning but being ignored... its become a national trait.
To be clear, I don't blame the nurses & doctors in A&E who are encountering budget & capacity pressures that would make it difficult for anyone to do a good job.
As length of waiting times in A&E grow, so do deaths while waiting to be seen; but this is part of the crisis engineered by the Tories, not a managerial or staff training issue (which is not to say these have no impact).
@ChrisMayLA6
There's nothing wrong with the #NHS that undoing 15 years of #Tory#austerity won't fix. Just look at wait time and satisfaction data from 2009.
It's not the NHS model that's the problem, it's the #Tories
The state of the NHS is a key issue for voters. On May 2010, the median waiting time for patients on the NHS was 5.5 weeks. The median as of February this year was 14.8.
The Tories, who have more seats than Labour overall, hold 59 seats in the 20 NHS areas with the worst waiting times, compared with Labour’s 33 seats.
Oh dear.. #NHS#WaitingLists#GeneralElection#UKPolitics
Rishi Sunak exposed over NHS queues as Tory seats among UK’s worst areas https://archive.is/SIU4Z