What is the point of doctors & nurses joining unions if those unions surrender their members to the risk of disability & death during an ongoing pandemic, & then sell them out for a pitiful 5% pay rise that goes nowhere towards addressing daily living costs? And all this while hours & working conditions are not only poor but actually traumatic?

#SaveTheNHS #NHSPay #NHSstrike #NHSEngland & the latter also applies to #NHSScotland #LongCovid

Know the difference!

#NursesStrike #nurses #NHSPAY

Still on your side

A new poll shows the majority of Brits back striking nurses, while two thirds think the Government has botched its handling of the walkouts gripping the nation

#NHSStrikes #RCNStrike #NHSPay

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/voters-back-striking-nurses-rcn-29852890

RT @DailyMirror
Still on your side

A new poll shows the majority of Brits back striking nurses, while two thirds think the Government has botched its handling of the walkouts gripping the nation

#NHSStrikes #RCNStrike #NHSPay

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/voters-back-striking-nurses-rcn-29852890

Westminster shown up by Holyrood over NHS pay | Morning Star
#NHSPay
#Holyrood
#Westminster

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/westminster-shown--up-holyrood-over-nhs-pay

RT @unitetheunion@twitter.com

🚨 SUPPORT THE #NHS STRIKE 🚨

💙 #SAVEOURNHS 💙

✊🏼 Share a message of solidarity to all NHS workers

🚑 Like & share for Fair #NHSPay now

🪧 Visit a picket line - 🔎 https://www.unitetheunion.org/campaigns/our-nhs-is-under-siege/

🙏

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/unitetheunion/status/1617440251793883136

RT @mettlesome_teri@twitter.com

Victor Adebowale speaks truth to power on NHS crisis. It’s not free, we pay for it and while it’s in crisis the last thing it needs is reform. The crisis needs addressing now, this minute by Tory gov. Start with pay to retain nursing staff. #NHSPay💙✊🏻

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mettlesome_teri/status/1616387462099570689

Nurses just need to budget more says rich MP. What meal should we miss out on then, as we’ve already turned the heating off!
#RCN#NHSCrisis #RCNStrike #NHSPay

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rich-tory-tells-skint-nurses-28992659?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

Fuck the Tories
And Fuck the Labour Party too

I support striking nurses and other workers fighting for fair pay and to protect our NHS and other services.

#EnoughisEnough
#NHS
#NHSPay
#Politics

RT @adjaamy@twitter.com

The government should really start taking these Nurses’ strikes serious! An hour later and I’m still waiting to be seen!😫
As a staff, I stand with nurses! They work so hard and don’t deserve to be queuing at food banks! #NHSCrisis #NHSStrikes #NHSpay #NHSPayRise

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/adjaamy/status/1615663046306791425

Health unions are refusing to submit evidence to the pay review bodies on NHS, doctors’ and dentists’ pay unless ministers first settle the dispute over 2022/23. In recent years the bodies’ recommendations have led to NHS personnel suffering year-on-year real-terms falls in their income https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/11/health-unions-refuse-to-submit-evidence-to-rigged-nhs-pay-review-system

#NHS #NHSPay #Nurses #NursesStrike #inflation #CostOfLiving #IndustrialAction

Here's a cartoon I did back in 2020 featuring former prime minister Boris Johnson, serving up the NHS on a silver platter to former US president Donald Trump. The NHS is a service many of us rely on, but after over a decade of Tory rule it's in a critical condition, which has been the Tories' end goal. #torylies #NHSCrisis #NHSPay #SaveOurNHS #12YearsToryMisrule #toryfraudulence #nhs #cartoon #BorisJohnson #Conservatives

WEALTH TAX:
A 1% tax on anyone who owns more than £10m in the UK could raise £10bn apparently. Would that pay for a 15% #NHSPay rise?
Let's cut the the tax loopholes & tax the rich properly.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/25/wealth-taxes-raise-37bn-uk-public-services-campaigners

@Fifthcolumnblue ALL if this discussion about #NHSPay #nhscrisis #nhsstrikes assumes the Govt wants to save the service. It doesn't. It's been cutting it for 10yrs.

The NHS is broken and needs a Govt who loves and respects its work and WANTS to save it.

Why isn't Starmer over this like a rash? Why is he so silent? And sorry but Summer Recess isn't an excuse in a crisis like this.

In solidarity with NHS staff who are in the middle of strike action, I am also on strike. #MediCat #NHS #NHSPay #CatsOfMastodon #Nurses #MedicalMastodon

Majority of junior doctors ‘considered leaving NHS in last year’ as pay row continues | The Independent
#NHS
#JuniorDoctors
#NHSPay

Junior doctors will vote on strike action in the New Year

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/junior-doctors-leave-nhs-pay-dispute-b2251748.html

The NHS saved my life – and I have a message for Steve Barclay | The Independent
#NHS
#Strikes
#Barclay
#NHSVacancies
#Doctors
#Nurses
#Paramedics
#NHSPay
#Diabetes
T1Diabetes

Without doctors and nurses I would be dead. Several times over, in fact

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nhs-strikes-ambulance-nurses-steve-barclay-b2250007.html

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@PoliticalPuffin Currently NHS workers have below inflation wage increases ( so pay cuts). They have expensive car parking charges ( it’s not free to park to go to work), petrol costs, uniform laundry costs, nurses have to pay £120 a year to the NMC ( nurses governing body) just to remain a registrant so that they can nurse. Pension contributions also rocketed this year so many had to leave their nhs pension.
#RCN #nursespay #NHSPay

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@PoliticalPuffin If the government pay the NHS staff a decent wage in the first place and improve their terms and conditions, then that would actually save money . Staff would stay, less would go off sick with stress so less money would be spent on the high agency fees.

#RCN #nursespay #NHSPay

If the market rate for an experienced paramedic is £35/hr, why does the NHS pay less than £21/hr?

If they think they're saving taxpayer's money on my behalf, then they should stop it. We only have to look at the USA to see the impact on costs from having private healthcare everywhere.

If paramedics leave the NHS, the NHS will be forced to use the private companies, who not only pay their paramedics a decent wage, but also take profits.
#nhsstrikes #nhscrisis #NHSPay #nhsprivatisation