British nurses facing life on the street

[Crush]

https://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/undervalued-nurse...

Damn you austerity!

[98elise]

Where does it say nurses are facing life on the street?

[Asterix]

Cool - they'll be closer than the nearest hospital when you feel ill.

[Hooli]

Page doesn't even open for me.

[Axionknight]

Two hundred and thirty one called to discuss bankruptcy and debt, the NHS has 377,191 qualified nursing staff positions filled according to: http://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/key-statistics-...

Less than 0.1%

[KingNothing]

£21k while not the best level of wages, is still more than some other people seem to manage with.

[Crush]

98elise said:

Where does it say nurses are facing life on the street?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nurses-turning-food-banks-asking-6367795

Apologies, that was from this scaremongering article.

[V88Dicky]

KingNothing said:

£21k while not the best level of wages, is still more than some other people seem to manage with.

Indeed, it's better than the starting wage for the Armed Forces and most police forces.

[Jim the Sunderer]

Young nurses these days don't exactly look starving.

[Ganglandboss]

KingNothing said:

£21k while not the best level of wages, is still more than some other people seem to manage with.

Last time I looked, a nurse's salary is closer to the £30k mark. It starts low and increases with an annual increment. I used to be an electrician at a university, and that's how our pay structure worked (and the rates seem fairly similar too). I never felt hard up, and as with any career, you have to start at the bottom.

[Sheepshanks]

KingNothing said:

£21k while not the best level of wages, is still more than some other people seem to manage with.

There won't be many nurses on £21K - that's the starting point for band 5 and they go up two points in the first year. Then there's extra pay for nights and weekends.

[Du1point8]

377,191 qualified nurses in the UK... of whom 231 were recorded asking for debt advice - which is considerably less than 0.1%.

Bet if you looked in Banking, etc there would be a similar amount having issues, probably due to crappy money management skills.

[KingNothing]

Sheepshanks said:

KingNothing said:

£21k while not the best level of wages, is still more than some other people seem to manage with.

There won't be many nurses on £21K - that's the starting point for band 5 and they go up two points in the first year. Then there's extra pay for nights and weekends.

Obviously, used the starting point to avoid the "not all nurses are on £35k" mob turning up, lol.

[Asterix]

So street girls in nurses uniforms?

[Thankyou4calling]

I know a few nurses.

Basic salary is around 22k and goes up from there.

Nights, weekends, overtime, agency shifts. Most are doing these and grossing around £35,000 a year.

All drive a new (ish) car and have plenty of disposable income, priority access to key worker housing is also par for the course.

Plus, show your NHS card in a huge number of establishments from Gyms to Nandos to Kwikfit and more and you get a signioficant discount.

Nurses get very well paid, don't believe the hype.

Edited by Thankyou4calling on Friday 4th September 14:58

[Foppo]

The hype is that they are underpayd for the job they are performing.

Why should they have to work every hr of overtime plus shiftwork to earn something resembling a decent wage?

My daughter is a qualified mental health nurse very devoted to her job.She is university educated and has plenty of practical experience.

Wards are full of mentally ill people, a symptom of our society.Like so many people over the last five years payrises have been minimal but the cost of living hasn't.

[Axionknight]

Asterix said:

So street girls in nurses uniforms?

happy days, unless they can't afford to wash them in between shifts!

[Foppo]

You are so funny.

[Foppo]

anonymous said:

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It isn't that good either for what they have to know and the responsibility what comes with it.My wife was a care assistant for years for the eldery and later in live for people with learning difficulties.Yes these jobs are a vocation but the pay my wife got was very low.Doctor's seem to do ok don't they.150 grand and 35 grand is some difference.I forgot they have to study forever to become a doctor.

[Axionknight]

Foppo said:

anonymous said:

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It isn't that good either for what they have to know and the responsibility what comes with it.My wife was a care assistant for years for the eldery and later in live for people with learning difficulties.Yes these jobs are a vocation but the pay my wife got was very low.Doctor's seem to do ok don't they.150 grand and 35 grand is some difference.I forgot they have to study forever to become a doctor.

£150,000?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/9300823/Mos...