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"You can’t do anything the way you’d want to do it," Linda says."It’s difficult to say for sure, but there are probably more errors. The idea that it’s less safe for patients causes a huge amount of stress." The strain on NHS staff is also evident in the growing number taking time off for mental health reasons. In September 2022, nearly half a million working days were lost to anxiety, stress, or depression-related absences. That's equivalent to one in every 80 working days, a 56% increase since 2015.
A recent report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies found that nurses and midwives who took at least three days off for mental health were 27% more likely to have left the NHS altogether three months later. For consultants, the figure was 58%. "It’s not that doctors in this country are particularly poorly paid compared to other workers," says Billy Palmer, an expert in NHS workforce issues at the Nuffield Trust, a think tank.
The same dynamic is likely to play into foreign healthcare workers’ decisions about relocating to the UK. In 2010, a nurse coming to the UK from Slovenia could expect a 37% boost to their living standards. As of 2020, they would earn 4% more by staying put. "There's lots of reasons people would want to come to the UK - they might be paid better here than elsewhere, or they're provided with the training opportunities they couldn't have at home. With the current situation, getting better working conditions or pay here might be a less realistic prospect."
The UK's reliance on foreign staff is increasing. In 2021, for the first time, doctors from outside the UK or Europe made up the majority of new additions to the medical register. A recent report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies found that, compared to those trained in the UK, EU-trained consultants were 23% more likely to leave the acute sector in any given month. For those from outside the EU, the difference was 56%.It’s not just other countries that the NHS is competing with for staff, but other sectors within the UK.
chesh The churn in the NHS is far less than the National average . What does that tell you ? THERE ISNT AN ISSUE!
chesh Why should nhs workers have to strike, be demonised by the press and fight for pennies when they can just walk away and go to Australia and make a fortune and live the good life? If I was a nurse or a doc you wouldn’t see me for dust
chesh Take a wild guess
Just changing scrubs from NHS ones to Agency ones, for more cash
The graphs in here of average £ pay comparisons between private sector job examples & various NHS roles are shocking. All the training undertaken to do their NHS jobs and the responsibilities they face in those jobs daily! Disgusting. Deplorable NHS £ pay rewards in comparison.
Over worked and underpaid really is a simple as that 🙄
Being a Nurse means you're expected to be a robot. Do the job, no breaks no water no bathroom stops. But God help you if your patients are dehydrated. It's indescribable how bad the culture has become, and how it's accepted, because the younger Nurses know no different.
It been run in to the ground, that's why.
Hmmm let us think…. crap pay and conditions…. maybe…. just maybe….
Simple. I didn’t train in psychiatry just to get low pay, poor working conditions, limited resources, and far too many stuck up and unnecessary managers for nothing. The private sector because the reverse is true. NHS could be better with less suits thinking they know better.
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