Tory health fail: Desperate hospitals beg doctors to take on extra shifts – at £95 an hour
Many hospitals have been struggling to find enough doctors to work over the Easter weekend [Image: David Sillitoe for the Guardian].
Desperate hospitals are so short of doctors they are pleading with them to take on extra shifts, with some offering up to £95 an hour to cover gaps in medical rotas to maintain patient safety.
Hospitals are so chronically understaffed they have been hiking pay rates in recent weeks and bombarding doctors with urgent emails and text messages in a bid to ensure standards of care do not suffer.
On Tuesday, Peterborough City hospital raised the pay available for working overnight that night in its “extremely busy” A&E to £95 an hour for a 10-hour shift to try to attract recruits.
Source: Desperate hospitals beg doctors to take on extra shifts – at £95 an hour | Society | The Guardian
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They Dont want to run the NHS, they just want the money they only want the money out of it
TO QUOTE TERESA MAY QUEEN OF ENGLAND /GREAT BRITAIN,A COUNTRY FOR ALL,I DON’T THINK, WHAT A SAD DAY ,NIGE BEVAN IS TURNING IN HIS GRAVE SEEING HIM DREAM BEING DESTROYED.
That’s Nye Bevan.
The Tory cry went out look the NHS can’t manage its budget we selling it to the yanks backhanders bribes jobs for the boys if they get to finish the job
And what state are they likely to be in if they have already done a 12 hour shift….what ever happened to min hours. Bribery has its place in this corrupt world but lets keep it our of A&E and other critical wards for gods sake. We also do not want doctors playing the agency and ovedtime games racking up the rates far higher than normal overtime.
Only £95 an hour?