For those of you living in the UK, are you aware you only have 2 days left to share your views on the NHS mandate consultation, which will set the objectives and budget of the health service in England for the next five years? (It wasn't exactly well publicised, with the DoH's tweet about it getting a whole 16 retweets....) Anyway, here's the link to it: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/setting-the-mandate-to-nhs-england-for-2016-to-2017 Am currently having a read myself with the aim to respond when I can, would highly recommend everyone else do the same
And here's a document outlining the Five Year Forward View for those that are interested: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.pdf
Taking away (part) of their weekend/over hours rates, but then giving NHS staff a raise on their basic pay. Mathmatically it works out to be a wage cut. They've already done this to a few Police Constabularies. It'll be interesting on how the strike turns out though
General strikes by healthcare staff tend not to go well for governments. There was a general strike by nurses in Sweden in the 80s that lasted less than 30 minutes.
Police Staff (civilians who work for the Police - including PCSO) went on strike and no one noticed. Because Police Officers can't strike themselves they were taken off the streets and took over those roles.
http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-george-osborne-generous-nhs/22104 whilst were talking about the NHS http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs...ocial&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1448549863
Update, so if the budget is not being cut to NHS / Police / Defence....are the strikes still going on? What's the crack?
The strike isn't about the budget, it's about the proposed new contract. Also read the first of Dead Pool's links and judge whether or not the budget's been cut.
The NHS is still being cut, Nurse training bussaries are being totally being cut, and drs cuts are still happening strikes are still on - http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/...rous-nhs/22104 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/...ime=1448549863
The strikes are also not just about the significant cut to Drs' wages, but also the concerns over patient safety with regards to proposed working hours, and removal of safeguards within the new contracts. That and the fact that, despite what Jeremy is trying to make out, the government has been unbelievably inflexible with regards to talks on the new contracts, refusing to discuss 22 of the 23 points the BMA had issue with
https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...AVwZ15JSvFAl1xbQMoU_O5ckDeDmpknC7hohc_n-ZAIvH Results are in, interesting reading, especially re stats.
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...department-health-service-public-consultation Article about the reply.
