Support Nurses....

Myriddin

The Mirror has an article running about parking for Nurses at hospital sites:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/battle-end-tory-rip-nurses-6743958

There's a petition going to Jerry Hunt as well:

https://www.change.org/p/rt-hon-jeremy-hunt-mp-end-rip-off-parking-charges-for-our-nhs-nurses

peter_the_piper

Signed, its bad enough for the patients/visitors to have to pay let alone the nurses. I wonder if the highly paid, non medical staff have to pay as well, I doubt it.

Guest101

peter_the_piper wrote: »

Signed, its bad enough for the patients/visitors to have to pay let alone the nurses. I wonder if the highly paid, non medical staff have to pay as well, I doubt it.

Of course they do.


I get so sick of hearing this.


The 'non-medical' staff ?


Which ones? The cleaners? The porters? The bed managers? Perhaps the procurements team? The HR director? let's examine further:


Cleaners - so you'd be happy to have a dirty hospital? Where bacteria can thrive?


Porters - So who should make sure the right equipment is in the right place? or that patients transferred to the correct clinic?


Bed Managers - So at a time when there is no funding, the managers try their best to make sure that as many beds are available as possible, but should patients wait in the corridor?


Procurements team - who negotiate over supply of drugs and equipment at the best possible price?


HR director who overseas 1000's of employees and manages recruitment in a difficult sector?


- Simplistic, uneducated 'headline' comments like yours cause so much unnecessary hassle to people who just want to help.

System

Can you include me in the petition as well. I have nothing to do with nursing, do not work at any NHS sites but I have to pay to park for work as well.

bod1467

Yes. But what did the Romans ever do for us?

peter_the_piper

Guest101 wrote: »

Of course they do.


I get so sick of hearing this.


The 'non-medical' staff ?


Which ones? The cleaners? The porters? The bed managers? Perhaps the procurements team? The HR director? let's examine further:


Cleaners - so you'd be happy to have a dirty hospital? Where bacteria can thrive?


Porters - So who should make sure the right equipment is in the right place? or that patients transferred to the correct clinic?


Bed Managers - So at a time when there is no funding, the managers try their best to make sure that as many beds are available as possible, but should patients wait in the corridor?


Procurements team - who negotiate over supply of drugs and equipment at the best possible price?


HR director who overseas 1000's of employees and manages recruitment in a difficult sector?


- Simplistic, uneducated 'headline' comments like yours cause so much unnecessary hassle to people who just want to help.

I added the words HIGH PAID, I don't think you would include porters, cleaners etc in this, would you? These could well afford to pay if they don't already.

System

Means tested parking charges? Don't give PE ideas.

C_Mababejive

The Mirror article says the nurses are "hard up".

This cant be true as i believe the starting point is band 5 and from there its upwards and onwards..

https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/about/careers-nhs/nhs-pay-and-benefits/agenda-change-pay-rates

What about "hard up" other people who are working but on even less than those payscales but have to commute and park to work? Needless to say i wont be signing.

The_Deep

Why stop at parking, what about season tickets, lunches, and free eye liner?

Guest101

peter_the_piper wrote: »

I added the words HIGH PAID, I don't think you would include porters, cleaners etc in this, would you? These could well afford to pay if they don't already.

And I included a high paid position.


It's a fact that nurses are paid more than cleaners or porters, so worth pointing out the important role they play. The highest paid people are consultants and clinical leads, who are also the worst for parking. Often taking up spaces of others and refusing to pay.

C_Mababejive

The_Deep wrote: »

Why stop at parking, what about season tickets, lunches, and free eye liner?

Also the ridiculous "key worker" housing scheme...