Doctors and nurses may see their salaries slashed and then be forced to work longer hours

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Doctors and nurses may see their salaries slashed and then be forced to work longer hours

July 16th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

By
James Chapman

PUBLISHED:

17:52 EST, 15 July 2012

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UPDATED:

17:52 EST, 15 July 2012

Thousands of doctors and nurses could be forced to take drastic pay cuts and work longer hours under NHS plans to save money.

Managers
from 19 hospital trusts in England have drawn up measures that would
also see employees losing some of their holiday and not being paid for
overtime.

But experts warn such proposals could lead to many frontline workers quitting their jobs, which could put patient care at risk.

Cost-saving measures will affect 60,000 NHS staff in hospitals in South West England

Cost-saving measures will affect 60,000 NHS staff in hospitals in South West England alone

Doctors
are already at loggerheads with the Government over plans to change
their pensions and recently carried out their first strike in 40 years
in protest.

This week the British Medical Association will announce whether it plans to organise additional walk-outs in the coming weeks.

But any moves to cut pay or slash other perks will almost certainly anger the profession further.

The
cost-saving measures would affect 60,000 NHS staff in hospitals in
South West England, of whom half are front-line workers. Managers behind
the plans claim they are the only way to avert a funding crisis.

A
leaked document outlining the measures suggests staff salaries should
be cut by 5 per cent and any overtime payments ‘restricted’.

It also advises reducing workers’ annual holiday by two days and making them work for 25 minutes longer every day.

But
Jeannett Martin of the Royal College of Nursing said such proposals
could damage morale in the NHS further, with ‘serious implications for
the recruitment and retention of staff . . . [and] patient care’.

A BMA spokesman said: ‘This is not how successful and sustainable efficiencies are going to be achieved.’

Meanwhile,
figures obtained through Freedom of Information requests showed around
30 NHS trusts spend up to £1,600 a day hiring agency nurses. The
Department of Health denied these nurses were replacing staff who had
been cut.