Indigo Cardiff Nurses Case: Permission to Appeal Refused

Herzlos

Redx wrote: »

plus its a shame the staff dont all resign en masse in protest

Probably not the best approach when landed with 5 figure debts. Best they can likely do is call in sick / late when they can't get parked now, or work to rule.

Is there any scope for suing the hospital trusts for the expenses occurred in trying to get to work?

bargepole

The_Deep wrote: »

IWhen I worked in Petty France my daily commute to work from Bracknell was as follows ...

Bracknell, home of the chavs, Great Hollands council estate and the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the UK? That's a bit down market for someone of your exalted wealth and status, surely?

I would have thought places like Binfield, Crowthorne, Warfield or Wokingham would have been more up your street.

The_Deep

Hardly downmarket. We lived in Roman Hill in a rather nice 4 bed detached Wates house backing on to Nine Mile Ride. We had a double garage and a bidet in the master en suite. I could cross the road and cycle all the way to Camberley through the woods. We thought we were quite posh, that is until we moved to our present house, (which I built myself), which is far better.

Loadsofchildren123

The Deep, so you do care about lawyers? Thank you for worrying about how I get to work and park
When working in London and living in Surrey and subsequently Northamptonshire: drive to station, pay to park there, train to Waterloo, bus to office.
Now I'm in the sticks: drive to work and park in our unmanned, unregulated private car park which does not require tickets or permits!

The_Deep

LOC, of course I care. If I had not passed the Foreign Office exams it would have been my second choice of career.

beamerguy

bargepole wrote: »

Bracknell, home of the chavs, Great Hollands council estate and the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the UK? That's a bit down market for someone of your exalted wealth and status, surely?

I would have thought places like Binfield, Crowthorne, Warfield or Wokingham would have been more up your street.

Chav areas (as you say) are all over.
I understand you live in High Wycombe BP, is Desborough still
the same dodgy area and classed on Mums net as a sinkhole

bargepole

The_Deep wrote: »

LOC, of course I care. If I had not passed the Foreign Office exams it would have been my second choice of career.

I just found an online practice paper for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office aptitude test, and scored 81%.

So it's not like it's rocket science.

Tammykitty

The_Deep wrote: »

I am not pointing fingers Mt C, merely stating that others also have parking problems,

When I worked in Petty France my daily commute to work from Bracknell was as follows.

Drive three miles to station, park, 15 minutes

Catch Train to Waterloo 50-60 minutes

Catch tube to Charing Cross

Change tube to Broadway.

Were I to drive, parking would probably have cost me £30 a day, and that was 25 years ago.

It is not as though there are too many nurses, they can work virtually anywhere they choose

Hospitals shifts have to be covered on a 24 hour basis though, and public transport does not run 24 hours in the majority of the country.


Cardiff central station is 2.5 miles from the hospital, and staff can be coming off shift at all hours, and there may not be a bus for an hour, and then maybe not a train for another hour.


Public transport is a viable option in most of London due to regular services, but in a lot of the rest of the UK it isn't.


I drive to work ( local hospital) and it takes 45minutes, getting public transport would mean an hour on the bus and the last bus leaves the town center at 8pm (which is about a 20 minute walk from the hospital) - now if I was a nurse treating a patient, who came out of surgery at 7.30, would you expect me to rush the tests and treatment and be out for 7.40 to get a bus, or do what most nurses do some unpaid overtime to ensure the patient is comfortable and settled before leaving regardless of what time my shift ends and then drive home?

System

So it's not like it's rocket science.

Rocket science is not rocket science either is you know a bit of chemistry and engineering.

bargepole

beamerguy wrote: »

Chav areas (as you say) are all over.
I understand you live in High Wycombe BP, is Desborough still
the same dodgy area and classed on Mums net as a sinkhole

Desborough Road, Castlefield, Cressex, Micklefield - all areas you wouldn't want to venture into alone at night.

Hughenden Valley, Hazlemere, Loudwater, West Wycombe, Naphill, Tylers Green are the nicer areas.

We have a detached house not that far from the town centre, in a nice close which is surrounded by less desirable roads. Fortunately, the riff-raff tend not to venture up here.