First ever political post

[eric_sinclair]

They get 40k they want 45, they get 45 they want 50k.

The public have been suckered into thinking nurses are poorly paid......they ain't.

Ave GP salary over 100k, my practice has had its doors bolted shut for 15 months.

Depends on what the correct salary is, some say 34k, the last poster just under 30k.If it's the latter that ain't great with shift and weekend work for a qualified nurse imo. It's costing my mate a fortune putting his daughter to uni to become a nurse and 4 year degree also so not as great as u think.

[jdfc]

Depends on what the correct salary is, some say 34k, the last poster just under 30k.If it's the latter that ain't great with shift and weekend work for a qualified nurse imo. It's costing my mate a fortune putting his daughter to uni to become a nurse and 4 year degree also so not as great as u think.

How is it costing him a fortune, Uni is free in this country, and if wages are as low as we are led to believe then they won’t have to pay back much on their student loans,

Nurses are one of the few students who don’t have to pay back their £800 a month bursary, add on a wee part time job and probably better of than most

[Returnofrros]

…..but according to some on here enough is never enough for the poor nurses and doctors.

They deserve everything and more…and then more again…just because.

When you question it with them they run away claiming ‘troll troll troll’.

Ārseholes.

Getting sick of agreeing with you. 🤨

I'm not saying some are very dedicated but I go back to my original point.....a small % will be extremely dedicated, vast majority will do a fair days work for imho a very fair pay and some will lazy arse there way thru their career and pick up a very nice pension.

At least nobody has said they have to visit food banks yet but that may be coming.

If they have a very savvy PR union that exploits govt weakness and public gullibility good luck to them but I'm no having it nurses are poorly paid......they simply ain't.

Fire service tried to go down similar route after 9/11.....every bugger a hero.....it's simply untrue.

A wider discussion on how well the public sector have done since covid and the pretty dreadful services that are now being offered should be taking place.....instead.....give us more dosh.

[GB72]

If everyone took their holidays on a Saturday and Sunday, I would imagine they would be pretty short staffed at the weekends

Only so many staff can get off at one time.

But free to take as many weekends off as you want

307 hours…..then the sickness

[eric_sinclair]

How is it costing him a fortune, Uni is free in this country, and if wages are as low as we are led to believe then they won’t have to pay back much on their student loans,

Nurses are one of the few students who don’t have to pay back their £800 a month bursary, add on a wee part time job and probably better of than most

Accommodation in Edinburgh is the cost. No everyone can get an offer at dundee uni.

[eric_sinclair]

Can’t be doing many unsocial hours in their roster for those figures.

Doing two Saturdays and and two Sundays a month will earn them

£2312 for the Sunday’s and £1156 for the Saturday over the course of a year

Throw in the midweek night shifts (all nurses nhs staff have different)

But another £2817 for your midweek nights

So easily over £6,000

Those weekend hours would put thousands on most jobs I wud imagine.

[GB72]

Those weekend hours would put thousands on most jobs I wud imagine.

Lot of jobs don’t come with enhancements, take the carers that work in private nursing homes, not an extra penny for working nights/weekends etc.

[islaydarkblue]

Those weekend hours would put thousands on most jobs I wud imagine.

About four years ago I heard that that a GP on Islay providing 24 hours cover on a Saturday or Sunday was paid £1,000 for each 24 hours shift. The population on Islay is around 3,000.
Out of hours working for GP’s on Islay is the it was in Dundee before GP’s refused to do out of hours working unless they were paid overtime.
A GP is on call during the hours that the surgeries on Islay are closed and they also have to treat patients who arrive at A & E at Islay Hospital with some of them having to be transferred by air ambulance to hospitals in the Glasgow area.

[The AuldYin]

About four years ago I heard that that a GP on Islay providing 24 hours cover on a Saturday or Sunday was paid £1,000 for each 24 hours shift. The population on Islay is around 3,000.
Out of hours working for GP’s on Islay is the it was in Dundee before GP’s refused to do out of hours working unless they were paid overtime.
A GP is on call during the hours that the surgeries on Islay are closed and they also have to treat patients who arrive at A & E at Islay Hospital with some of them having to be transferred by air ambulance to hospitals in the Glasgow area.

Folk who choose to live on remote, barely inhabited islands should pay a higher rate of NI. Daft, inbred, 6 fingered, banjo playing c&nts.

[islaydarkblue]

Folk who choose to live on remote, barely inhabited islands should pay a higher rate of NI. Daft, inbred, 6 fingered, banjo playing c&nts.

You are not so far of the mark. The island of Islay has more than its fair share of children with special needs.
There is one local resident who is engaged to his full cousin and they have had five children. The person who told me said that amazingly all the children have no problems.
The taxation from the production of whisky from the nine whisky distilleries on Islay all working full time are contributing to the funding for the Barnett Formula which pays for the daily methadone handout to drug users in Scotland.