Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHS
Yvonne Bates
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Comment on: London hospitals told they could slash nursing bill by £421m
What a load of ****!! And what do Consultants know or care?? There is an abundance of evidence worldwide stating that Patient Ratios SAVES LIVES and decreases the percentage by a huge amount of hospital related conditions...ie Pneumonias/UTIs/Pressure Sores and DEATHS!. This article is a disgrace. We in Melbourne Australia are fighting the battle of our lives to save our Ratios...and NOTHING will stop us to protect this essential part of our conditions. Safe and Quality CARE.We are in the process of Mass Resignation which is such a hard time for us all...but thats the way it is at the moment here. These Consultants are living either in Cuckoo Land or have the $$ sign on top of their heads ....like our Government who do not want to read the evidence! Good Luck UK nurses with your ongoing battle...you need truckloads.
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Comment on: NHS workforce shrinks by 2%
Hi Guys Downunder again. Just wondering how its all going over there. And then I read this.And I thnk to myself nothing has changed for you all. Still working under crap conditions, still unable to give quality care that you know you would like to give, but conditions ( sorry budget ) wont allow.Such a massive exit of nurses which is so scary to you. Looks like your doctors will be running the wards in the not too near future....now theres a vision!! We here are still ongoing in a battle with Government who wants to wait for it....get rid of our patient ratios, introduce Healthcare Assistants into acute areas...and make us work 4 hours shifts....and lets not forget bringing in the old split shifts. This battle is huge believe me. Massive rallies...the last one was 12000 nurses, near on weekly mass meetings in the city and we are hitting every hospital with rallies outside the hospital daily. Friday is another huge meeting in the city and then we march to Parlimant House to hand over thousands and thousands of petitions from the public. We have spent the passed 6 weeks or so getting the public support we need, including mass media coverage. We have that support now, THEN we will again act. It looks sadly that this will go to another 1986 strike, as Government are hellbent on getting these demands passed by taking us to Arbitration. IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN! We have 60,000 ANGRY nurses wearing RED every day to work and on days off!! And we are playing our cards well. The majority of nurses here are working their guts out to make sure we keep what we know the public needs ..and thats our ratios and registered nurses., AND TO MAINTAIN QUALITY CARE. But the battle will be bloody this time and we are all finding it hard. Beds were closed for a few weeks here and then we opened them as an olive branch to Government to negotiate...they did not do this and so we shall see what the next move is. Nurses were again docked pay for bed closures and still they worked on...thats how we play it. Have any of you joined our Facebook ANF Respect Our Work...Come see the SEA OF RED.We should send some of our gals over there to get your other nurses motivated :D THE COURAGE OF ONE MAN GETS THE MAJORITY...XXX
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Comment on: 'Nursing matters and we’re here to fight for you'
Good Luck for today guys...Thursday the BIG MARCH...:)
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Comment on: 'Nursing matters and we’re here to fight for you'
Hi Mags Mike Tinkerbell and everyone else over there Glad you liked the clip...keep on looking and youll see more.One place I think you all would be interested in is Facebook ANF Respect Our Work. I will tell you now things are getting pretty bad here and it is prob going to escalate sadly.We are all finding this EBA with our Government the toughest yet...BUT IT AINT OVER!! Our Facebook would absoluately welcome you guys calling in and saying hello. We have nearly 10,000 nurses on this site and its one of the best things we have to keep our morale up. But this article above says some of it, but not all as far as who you guys are...brilliant caring PROFESSIONALS that deserve the right to be recognised as just that! Call into the Aussie Facebook and say Hi :)
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Comment on: 'Nursing matters and we’re here to fight for you'
Massive Rally guys...its was awesome!! Public support is out there really now. No: of nurses attending vary from 4000 to 8000, but havent got the real figures as yet. We went for a SEA OF RED and boy was it there!!( We all wore and carried RED! ) Our union have also just got a TV ad on the road to further spread the word that this isnt just about a pay rise, but about safe patient nursing.They are so loved by nurses here!!! I was thinking if you keep up with the unions lack of support, maybe you guys should think about a life Downunder in Victoria??... Smile
