NHS lease car

Hintza

Just run the sums but at the end of the day the deciding factor will no doubt be "How much is hassle free motoring worth to me?"

DKLS

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Mostly Golfs and Minis from what I see in the NHS car park at the hospital where my wife works and what most of her colleagues drive on the NHS 'massively subsidised by the taxpayer' lease scheme.

Minis, Jukes and A3s at my wife car park. You could see it as being massively subsidised which is unlikely or you could look it as a whole heap of companies are falling over themselves to offer discounts to the NHS, its one of the fifth largest employers on the planet.

That gets you some hefty discounts and benefits for staff.

moggy12

the company my daughter can use for car leasing while working for the nhs is expensive she wanted to have a Citroen c1 or Peugeot 108 was coming in around £200 a month went to Peugeot got a 108 for £119 a month x36 with £119 deposit she pays £30 month car insurance for her and her boyfriend she gets 3 yrs free car servicing with Peugeot so total of £149 month so saving £51 x36 £1836 only thing she doesn't get is tyres but has she does low mileage the tyres will last the 3 years so shop around

gzoom

OT: But as someone who's worked the NHS for a decade there is a lot of myth and pay for doctors/nurses.

I left medical school with £15k of debt, my starting salary was £20k. For the first 2 years of my life I literarally spent evey other weekend working overtime to pay my way. I use to do 7 12hr night shifts, get 1 day off and than back onto another 7 day 12hr shift pattern.

Last year we didn't haven enough staff to cover all the emergency shifts - This was due to lack of recruits, not due to 'opting out'. So me and a mate did about 2 weeks worth of back to back 24hr shifts. So I started Monday, slept in hospital when I could (3-4 hrs max per shift), finished Tuesday AM, went home, came back Wednesday AM, went home Thursday AM. We did this about 10 days till one day I realised I had no idea what day of the week it was, what news has been going on, no food in the fridge due to no time for shopping. Enough was enough and we both said we couldn't do it any more.....Initial response from managers 'you still have X shifts to cover'

If you go into any UK hospital you will find over 50% of the staff are from abroad....why?? It's not because we don't train enough doctors or nurses, it's because the managers/politicians treat the healthcare workers like rubbish, blame us for failing healthcare policies, and frankly if your good enough, people leave the NHS to go and work for private companies or go abroad.

The current political rubbish about 7 day working may well be the straw that breaks the camels back for both me and my wife. For the last 10 years we've worked weekends/Xmas/nights, changed plans at the last minute to cover gaps in the rota etc, and the thanks we get from Jermey Hunt - Sorry but your not doing you job properly. We both love the NHS and what it stands for, we both trained in the NHS, but quite frankly why would we stay here, when abroad we can get more pay, lower tax and be treated like human beings rather than robots....

Sorry for the rant, but if you speak to any clinical staff in the NHS the vast majority feel the same way. This is the most demoralised I've seen the work force since I started in 2005

xHannahx

A friend has a basic spec Kia picanto through the NHS scheme fully maintained etc, the prices they quote are from gross pay so assumingly income tax and Ni friendly. my friend says it works out about £120 reduction to her net pay.

usefulmale

dannyrst wrote: »

No. Londoners are extremely overpaid.

Tube workers go on strike because they don't get a pay rise. They earn £50k a year. I'm pretty sure I could sit on a chair and move a leaver backwards and forwards for £50k a year. I couldn't, however, sit and diagnose person after person with different illnesses.

You can't even spell LEVER. I certainly wouldn't trust you to move one on any train I were travelling on.

bigjl

saverbuyer wrote: »

Also need to look into the effect on your wife's pension. Are payments taken from gross pay therefore reducing her pensionable salary?

Can't see how it would have any effect whatsoever on a final salary pension scheme.

A mate has a Hyundai i30 on this scheme and he does 30k a year at least, he is going for another when this deal runs out.


Edit.
My information is out of date as I refused to change from the 1995 section to the 2008 section as felt there would be hidden traps that would cost you money, seems I was right.

bigjl

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Mostly Golfs and Minis from what I see in the NHS car park at the hospital where my wife works and what most of her colleagues drive on the NHS 'massively subsidised by the taxpayer' lease scheme.

Subsidised by the Tax Payer?

Are you one of those people that likes to tell NHS staff hat you pay their wages?

NHS staff pay tax as well you know.

And I don't think they are subsidised I personally think they have just negotiated good deals due to fleet size, pretty much like Motability.

Or do you think Tax Payers subsidise Motability leases aswell?

fred246

NHS Trusts promote salary sacrifice schemes as it saves them money. The staff like them because people like new shiny items. The staff do lose out on their pension but most are too short sighted to bother. The government will have less to pay out in pensions in years to come

fred246

I was chatting to a nurse a few months ago who had a Range Rover Evoque on the scheme. She was paying a large proportion of her salary on it. I mentioned the effect on her pension. She said "I'll probably be dead by then anyway. I don't care. It turns heads at the lights".