Have 10% inflation and falling markets affected your drawdown plan?

billy2shots

Sunnylifeover50plan said:

It's turning political. 5 million or so EU affiliated folks settled in the UK - that's a lot of people. Surely some of them must work in the NHS still. The NHS needs to have a people pipeline - training and development along with golden handcuffs to keep staff it's invested in unless they pay back training costs invested in them. It can't poach from poorer countries. I'm sure Justin Welby would agree.

Yes there are SOME EU NHS workers still. Really not sure of the point you are trying to make. 

The simple fact is most young British people do not want to go into nursing or social care. It's seen as beneath them. 

The perception and financial benefits need to change from the very bottom. 
Something is very wrong when Doctors are leaving work early as their pensions have grown so large they will breach LTA so step down whilst junior colleagues and social care staff scrape by. 

Nebulous2

Sunnylifeover50plan said:

It's turning political. 5 million or so EU affiliated folks settled in the UK - that's a lot of people. Surely some of them must work in the NHS still. The NHS needs to have a people pipeline - training and development along with golden handcuffs to keep staff it's invested in unless they pay back training costs invested in them. It can't poach from poorer countries. I'm sure Justin Welby would agree.

I'm not sure where you see 'training costs invested in them.' 

If you have a student loan covering your tuition fees and living costs during your degree course, what has been invested in you, rather than charged to you?

When I did my nurse training, before degree courses, I was a paid employee and was expected to work full shifts in the wards during my placements. 

barnstar2077

My girlfriend is trying to retrain as a nurse.  It isn't cheap, and it definitely isn't easy, she is having to retake a GCSE and complete online assignments just to get started.  She is already working as a Health Care Assistant and doesn't paint a pretty picture of the stress she is under, or the physical attacks and groping from elderly patients that she has to put up with.  Lack of staff due to covid is also a major problem, and even when we are not hearing about it on the news, the hospitals are barely managing.  It takes a special person indeed to do what they do for not much reward. 

Ibrahim5

I was chatting to someone recently who knew someone that was doing nurse training. They said that the government seemed to think they were training them for the wards. In fact they were all planning on working in cosmetic surgery clinics.