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Nurses to strike on May Day bank holiday after rejecting Tory pay offer

Nurses are going back on strike after rejecting a Tory pay offer that simply wasn’t enough.

Nurses from the Royal College of Nursing have rejected a government pay offer of half the rate of inflation plus a one-off payment and will strike again for 48 hours on May Day.

How appropriate for the Tory government.

The walkout will last for 48 hours from 8pm on April 30, involving NHS nurses in emergency departments, intensive care, cancer and other wards.

Some critical care services, such as intensive care, will not be staffed on strike days – something which did not happen in previous strikes.

The Tories have claimed that this is an escalation in strike action and the RCN nurses should be ashamed.

But isn’t it more shameful that the Tories could find billions to spaff on duff PPE and any number of other fraudulent offers by their buddies, but reckon they can’t afford to pay the nurses who kept us all alive during the Covid-19 crisis?

Unison nurses (and ambulance workers) have accepted the five per cent pay offer plus one-off payment of £1,655 to top-up their salaries for 2022-23.

You may also have an opinion about that.

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How is this new offer to health unions going to do any good?

A nurse: doesn’t this person deserve fair pay?

Apparently Health Secretary Steve Barclay is going to make a new offer to health unions, in his latest bid to end the NHS strikes in England.

But from the reports, it’s a rotten offer.

We’re hearing he’s offering a one-off payment – a bonus – of up to six per cent for 2022-23, coupled with a permanent pay increase of five per cent for the current financial year onwards.

That’s nothing like enough to cover all the money that NHS workers have lost since the Conservatives slithered back into office in 2010. Nurses have lost 20 per cent in that time.

And it won’t cover the increased costs that have been caused by inflation. You see, just because inflation goes down, that doesn’t mean prices do the same. Quite the opposite, in fact – they continue rising, just at a slower rate.

And nurses, together with all the other striking NHS workers, are struggling to make ends meet.

The impression This Writer has is that the government wants nurses to struggle and this is just another attempt to look reasonable.

Remember: MPs almost have parity with the level of pay they had in 2010 – they aren’t suffering in anything like the same way as nurses. And they get publicly-subsidised meals and drinks in the House of Commons facilities.

This Writer is glad to hear that not all of the 14 health unions are expected to support the new pay offer.

I’m aware that they may be tired of strikes, but derisory pay offers are an attack on the quality of healthcare and must be opposed.

Source: Government makes revised pay offer to health unions, reports say – UK politics live

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Now Matt Hancock is in trouble for wearing a football shirt he allegedly sold years ago

Truth or lies? Matt Hancock auctioned off a signed Newcastle United shirt three years ago, but was seen wearing it in a very recent video clip. Was it really handed straight back to him by the buyer, as his spokesperson claims?

An explanation has been offered but that won’t stop Matt Hancock getting into trouble for it.

The former Health Secretary, who has been accused of being involved in the waste of £600 million on useless contracts for Personal Protective Equipment during the Covid-19 crisis, allegedly sold off his Newcastle United football shirt to raise cash for – you guessed it – ‘scrubs’ for NHS staff.

Now he has been seen wearing it in a video he made about his joy at seeing his team go to Wembley for the first time in years (to lose, in the final of the Carabao Cup, to Manchester United).

Shades of ‘Seatbelt Sunak’!

Some have said the person who bought the shirt at the auction then donated it straight back to Hancock. But then, why didn’t they just make a donation for the equipment?

And why is this the first we’ve heard of that transaction in three years? I would have thought that such an act of generosity would have been worth mentioning in any news reports of the auction.

But this is a man who can’t do anything right. If he’d simply mentioned the shirt’s history, he could have avoided this… but it probably never occurred to him.

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NHS leaders making contingency plans as biggest walkout in its history looms | Sky News

At breaking point: the UK’s National Health Service.

Ambulance workers and nurses are both set to go on strike on 6 February – the first time they’ve taken industrial action simultaneously. There are fears it could pose a “significant challenge” for the NHS.

Saffron Cordery, the interim chief executive of NHS Providers, has said the proposed walkouts are a “huge concern”.

She said: “Trusts have been warning for months that coordinated strikes were a possibility if the government and unions failed to reach an early agreement on this year’s pay award.”

Ms Cordery urged ministers to “get round the table with the unions urgently to deal with the key issue of pay for this financial year, otherwise there is no light at the end of the tunnel”.

Source: NHS leaders making contingency plans as biggest walkout in its history looms | UK News | Sky News

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Therese Coffey: more reasons to despise the Tories

Take a look at this:

At a time when the National Health Service is in dire need of more nursing staff – but can’t recruit them because pay is too low and working conditions too poor – the government minister responsible for sorting out these problems is telling nurses to work elsewhere if they want to go on strike.

Therese Coffey may well be, as Maximilien Robespierre suggests, not only the most horrible person in the Conservative government but also the nastiest person in the UK, of any kind at all.

And that’s a high bar to clear!

Meanwhile, and in contrast, the Scottish Health Minister seems to be preparing to offering nurses there higher pay.

Coffey demonstrates no empathy for people in the UK. How did she ever manage to get elected? What did voters in Suffolk Coastal think they were getting?

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Nurses are being balloted on strike action for the first time ever; ambulance crews are already coming out

A nurse: doesn’t this person deserve fair pay, after working to keep us all safe from Covid-19 for the last two years – and facing what could be a much worse period in the immediate future?

You can understand their reasons.

The government has had a stranglehold on nurses for years because their job is an act of care; if they go out on strike, people will suffer.

But people are suffering anyway because of the government’s insistence on starving nurses of pay that covers a basic standard of living (yes, really).

So you can understand why nurses are being balloted on strike action now – for the first time ever.

Here‘s the BBC:

The union is recommending its 300,000 members walk out over pay, with the result of the ballot due next month.

The government has urged nurses to “carefully consider” the impact on patients.

General secretary Pat Cullen told the BBC: “We’re not asking for the salaries of bankers or billionaires that seems to be the focus of this government.

“We’re just asking for a decent wage for our nursing staff so they can continue to do the brilliant job they do everyday for their patients, and so that we can absolutely retain the staff that we’ve got.”

She added: “They need to give them a decent wage so they can look after their families, pay their bills.”

Ambulance crews have already agreed on industrial action.

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Racist candidate to be NHS England boss wants to clear ‘foreigners’ out of the service

Dido Harding: now we find she’s a racist as well as a Tory money pit and expertise vacuum.

This is blatant kite-flying.

Dido Harding has suggested a racist employment policy for NHS England, if she gets the job as boss.

She’s probably doing this to gauge whether there are enough ignorant racists in the country to support it – and thereby support the dismantling of the National Health Service in favour of a profit-making business in which your health is a commodity that you can only afford at the right price.

She says – well, read it for yourself:

Dido Harding is vowing to end the NHS’s reliance on foreign doctors and nurses if she becomes head of the health service in England – despite Matt Hancock previously urging a ‘new Windrush generation’ to help fill jobs.

The Tory peer has made ending the ‘prevailing orthodoxy’ that staff are better sourced from abroad part of her pitch to take over from Sir Simon Stevens next month.

However, two years ago Lady Harding penned a report admitting that the NHS must ‘increase international recruitment in the short to medium term’.

My mother came to Britain in 1949 as a first-generation NHS nurse. When I hear Dido Harding saying 'end NHS reliance on foreigners', I hear what she's really saying.

— David__Osland (@David__Osland) June 20, 2021

Dido Harding wants to "end NHS reliance on foreigners."

I want an end to xenophobic dog whistling and categorically say #NoToDidoHardingForNHS

— Katy (@KatyJayne101) June 20, 2021

You see, the NHS cannot function without doctors, nurses and support staff from other nations. It never could. There aren’t enough home-grown medical staff in the UK and Harding knows it (see the last paragraph of the quote from the Mail, above).

But by omitting to mention that fact, she’s trying to fool you into believing that Johnny (and Janey) Foreigner aren’t needed and shouldn’t be wanted.

Result? If she gets her way, it’ll be the removal of foreign national employees from the NHS and the subsequent collapse of the service.

And you’ll get the blame because you’ll have supported it.

Fortunately, it seems few people do:

Around 170,000 NHS staff are of non-British nationality. During the pandemic they courageously & selflessly risked their own safety to keep us safe. They are heroes who deserve our thanks & gratitude. Imagine what they must think reading this headline https://t.co/t0wx7injeH

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) June 20, 2021

Dido Harding is not fit to lead the NHS https://t.co/HTr0ZZPDzK I am staggered by Dido Harding’s comments on ‘foreigners’ working for the NHS. Surely they rule her out of contention?

— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) June 20, 2021

Dido Harding’s statement about removing foreign NHS workers wasn’t just a blatant dog whistle to racists, it was fact free. The likely cost of replacing foreign NHS workers £42 billion
This government is already choker full of racist idiots, we don’t need one more to run the NHS https://t.co/ipOqPxLtJL

— Devutopia (@D_Raval) June 20, 2021

RT if you support the ‘foreigners’ who are an integral part of the NHS workforce, caring for our country and making homes in the UK.

We value you 💙

— Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 (@JujuliaGrace) June 20, 2021

Dido Harding can't be for real. The NHS would completely collapse without foreign doctors and nurses.

— Daniela Nadj (@DanielaNadj) June 20, 2021

Dido Harding saying she doesn’t want foreigners in the NHS has one objective – let the ones there now know they are not welcome, get them to leave and throw the NHS into crisis. This has been going on for years so this is just saying it out loud and accelerating their efforts.

— Angela Mythen. ⭐️⭐️ (@angiemythen) June 20, 2021

I like this idea – praising foreign-born medical staff working within the NHS for their life-saving work:

Some of the NHS workers I'd like to thank for saving me from cancer:

The Polish surgeon who performed emergency treatment when I was brought in, screaming in pain

The Filipino nurse who held my hand for an hour when I was having a weep in the middle of the night …

— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) June 20, 2021

The Pakistani ward sister who led the team caring for me during my 7 weeks in hospital.

The Belgian professor of histology who identified my tumour after surgery

The Greek doctor at Christies who leads the experimental chemotherapy that prevented a relapse…

— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) June 20, 2021

Obviously, millions of British people work in the NHS, but the key contact points for me were almost all immigrants.

28% of NHS doctors were born overseas.

For 2 years they, and hundreds of thousands of their colleagues, risked their lives to save yours in a pandemic…

— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) June 20, 2021

Immigrants are 9% of the UK population, but 28% of NHS doctors.

You are 3x more likely to be treated by an immigrant than in a queue behind one

If we got rid of immigrants, services would be worse. Queues longer. Survival rates lower…

— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) June 20, 2021

So what is the reasoning behind the idea of an NHS employing no immigrants? Who does that help? What does it achieve?

It helps nobody. It achieves nothing. The "rationale" is simple racism.

Thank you, NHS. Thank you, immigrants.

Fuck you, racists.

There. I've said my piece.

— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) June 20, 2021

Of course, Russ added this…

Boris Johnson would be dead if it wasn't for #ForeignDoctors

Sorry, I'm undermining my own argument here.

— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) June 20, 2021

I also like this – NHS staff of foreign origin pointing out the good work that they do, in contrast to … whatever it is Harding claims to get up to:

Hey @didoharding I worked in the NHS today at the Out of hours dental emergencies clinic in Hull. I’m from India and my colleague this morning is from Ghana. Did you do anything useful today?

— Pramod Subbaraman 🦷 (@briteeth) June 20, 2021

Will a backlash stop Harding from getting the job?

Probably not…

I mean, take a look at her record (courtesy of Private Eye) and you’ll see a catalogue of disasters – none of which have stopped her from bagging increasingly important and high-paid roles, which she then trashed.

Today’s nasty stuff about getting foreigners out of the NHS is clearly designed to distract from her CV. Recent history suggests it will work. pic.twitter.com/OwuaTB6A2y

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) June 20, 2021

It’s an outrage that Harding is doing this.

So, what are we going to do about it?

Report her for racist hate speech?

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Matt Hancock is gaslighting not only nurses, but ALL of us, over PPE

Smug little liar: when Matt Hancock opens his mouth to make a claim,experience shows it will probably be wrong.

Our nurses are right and Matt Hancock is a liar. He would resign if he had an ounce of integrity but of course he doesn’t, so he won’t.

He has said he would not resign after a High Court judge ruled he was responsible for unlawful delays in revealing how billions of pounds were spent on gowns, masks and other protective equipment at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

He told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge: “My officials, with my full support, spent every waking hour buying PPE so that, even though we came close, we never actually ran out of PPE in this country.

“People can make up their own view about whether I should have told my team to stop buying PPE or whether I was right to buy the PPE and get it to the front line.

“And they did that even though the paperwork got delayed by, on average, just over a fortnight.”

Nurses don’t have to make up their own minds. They have the facts. They have experienced the deaths of their colleagues, who were exposed to Covid-19 needlessly because Hancock did not supply them with PPE.

In fact, as I stated earlier, not only did the Johnson government give away the PPE it had, it later wasted millions – if not billions – giving contracts to useless Tory cronies who either couldn’t supply the goods or provided equipment that could not be used.

That will be the buying that Hancock mentioned to Ms Ridge, then?

I also mentioned the fact that nurses caught the virus because they didn’t have proper PPE:

“According to Metro,

Three nurses who wore bin bags on their shifts due to a shortage in personal protective equipment (PPE) have reportedly tested positive for coronavirus.

Just weeks ago, the nurses had shared a photo of themselves with clinical waste bags on their heads and feet as they issued a plea for proper masks, gowns and gloves at Northwick Park Hospital, in Harrow.

“I wrote: ‘One of them had said they were all “terrified” that this might happen, knowing that colleagues had caught the disease from patients, and having treated those colleagues. They had seen what the illness does… We know what the government that failed them is going to give them: Platitudes.’

“How right I was.”

Now, responding to Hancock’s comments, community nurse Angela Roberts recalled the incident when she asked:

Why were nurses forced to use bloody bin bags? Out-of-date masks?

She continued:

Why was PPE downgraded for NHS staff?

‘Why was there no PPE for care homes and community nurses except for plastic pinnies?

And Anthony Johnson, lead organiser for Nurses United, said:

He thinks that he can try to gaslight millions of health and social care workers who had to re-use PPE.

If so, he thinks wrong.

But what difference will it make if there are no consequences for his actions?

Source: Hancock is gaslighting us over PPE, say nurses | Metro

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Support nurses’ campaign for fair pay!

A nurse: doesn’t this person deserve fair pay, after working to keep us all safe from Covid-19 for the last six months – and facing what could be a much worse period in the immediate future?

Yes, that means you!

The Royal College of Nursing has launched a campaign to pressure the government into paying nursing staff what they’re worth. Here’s what’s happening and how you can get involved:

The RCN wants nursing professionals to be valued for their high level of knowledge, expertise and skills with pay that reflects the complexity of their roles and the impact of their work.

This means campaigning for an early and significant pay rise for NHS staff and influencing independent health and social care employers, so they recognise and reward nursing staff properly.

That would involve a fully funded 12.5 per cent pay increase for all NHS nursing staff covered by Agenda for Change, as part of a one-year deal that applies equally to all bands.

That’s right – an increase of one-eighth of wages for all nurses. When the Tories recently mentioned large-sounding pay rises, they only applied to a tiny proportion of staff; most nurses got around one per cent – less than inflation.

The Fair Pay for Nursing campaign is about recognising the complexity of skill, responsibility and expertise demonstrated every day by nursing support workers, nursing associates, registered nurses and all members of the profession. It is about making sure that a safety critical profession can reach safe staffing levels and fill tens of thousands of unfilled nursing jobs. Ultimately, it is about providing safe and effective care for all people of the UK.

And you can help.

1. Find out more about the pay campaign and what it seeks to do.

2. Spread the word about it on social media using #FairPayForNursing, sharing your thoughts on why nursing staff deserve a fair pay rise.

3. Speak to family, friends, patients and colleagues about why you believe nursing staff deserve an early and significant pay rise.

Source: Demanding fair pay for nursing now | Bulletin | Royal College of Nursing

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Pledge to recruit 50,000 new NHS nurses in doubt – it’s a lie a day from Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson has the clap: but his show of appreciation for NHS staff went no further than a photo opportunity outside 10 Downing Street.

Boris Johnson’s pledge to recruit 50,000 more NHS nurses is in doubt after the number coming from the EU fell again and (it says here) coronavirus prevented thousands of arrivals from the rest of the world.

Here’s the Guardian:

The prime minister made the promise a cornerstone of his general election campaign last year and has since reiterated many times his determination to deliver the increase.

But annual data from the Nursing and Midwifery Council shows that the number of nurses and midwives from the European Economic Area (EEA) on its register, and thus able to work in the UK, has fallen for the last three years in a row.

The total now stands at 31,385. That is 1,650 (five per cent) fewer than the 33,035 such health professionals who were in Britain in 2018-19 and 6,639 fewer than the 38,024 who were here in 2016-17, the year in which the UK voted to leave the EU.

Last year just 913 people from the EEA joined the NMC’s permanent register for the first time. That is less than 10 per cent of the 9,389 EEA nurses and midwives who did so in 2015-16. Numbers arriving from Spain, Italy, Romania, Portugal and the Republic of Ireland have slowed to a trickle.

The NHS in England already has more than 40,000 vacancies for nurses.

Johnson simply doesn’t have a clue.

He made the pledge in the run-up to a general election – probably because he thought it would sound good and play well with voters.

He knew he’d be getting no nurses from the EU, and he had been told that Covid-19 was on the way – although, given his limited ability to understand global events, it is unlikely he gave any consideration to the meaning of this.

He spent weeks standing outside the door of 10 Downing Street, clapping for NHS staff in the certain knowledge that the virus was killing some of them and removing many others from active service.

And he knew that nobody would be recruited to boost those numbers.

Worse, his government announced plans to penalise NHS staff (as part of the Tory recovery strategy) and to harm the finances of student nurses who had stepped in to help when the NHS really needed them.

Not only did he lie about recruiting 50,000 more nurses; he has deliberately made the NHS unattractive for anyone considering that career.

Source: Boris Johnson’s pledge to recruit 50,000 more NHS nurses is in doubt | Society | The Guardian

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