Saturday 21 July 2007

"D'oh"

The Department of Health recently cracked a hilarious joke during an interview with the BBC:

"The government has been committed to ensuring NHS staff are better paid and the pay award for health professionals in England is a fair award reflecting the balance between the right level of pay and the need to be vigilant against the threats of inflation."

(Incidentally, I'd be interested to know what this spokesman's salary is!) See the full article here

So midwives are joining us in having the hump about pay, and rightly so. Industrial action is on the cards but, because we're a caring bunch, walking out on our patients isn't an option. Instead we'll just make a racket, send lots of bits of signed paper to No. 10 and perhaps ask some more footballers to donate their wages.

According to a BBC article on nursing pay the RCN surveyed 2,300 nurses about industrial action, three quarters of whom agreed to action which would not cause harm to patients. I dread to think what the other quarter were thinking of doing...

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