Why are healthcare workers leaving the UK’s NHS? | UpFront
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Publicado 2022-03-18
“I think our political leadership have really failed here,” Dr Dan Goyal, a consultant for the NHS, says. “I think their priorities were very skewed."
On UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill talks to NHS doctors Meenal Viz and Dan Goyal about the impact of the pandemic on the country’s healthcare system and front-line workers.
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Pitty this conversation couldn't be had on main stream television in the UK
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based on first hand experience as a patient over the years , what they're saying is 100% true. the public should be outraging on the streets, instead they're letting politicians off the hook as they inevitably drive us deeper into crisis..
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Sadly the British public will one day wake up and we'll recognise that the NHS is gone.
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I am a firm believer it's been a deliberate running down of our health care system to allow in more of the private sector. If the waiting lists are far too big unfortunately 'they will have no choice' and I think most people will believe that. Having forgot the mindset that started it.... Profit means too much now 🙄 and both main political party's were hinting at this.... Without an actual alternative it will keep degrading.
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I am one of the professional members of staff that left in 2021. Fed up with how my colleagues and myself were treated not only by the government but by managers and other members of staff. Bullying is a massive problem in the nhs, and I may love my job but can no longer handle it as it was affecting my mental health. Staff leaving are not being replaced and creating more stress and strain on the members of staff left, having to work extra shifts and hours to make sure patients are fully cared for.
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I am a health care worker for the NHS, it is seriously understaffed; I dont think people realise just how understaffed it is.
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NHS is paying their staff on a very low paying scale and in the meantime they will pay 3 times more to agency staffs....thats how they treat their permanent staffs
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I am an ICU nurse and also leaving bedside. Covid measures exacerbated an already vulnerable equilibrium. Healthcare has always been underappreciated but having to work in plastic with a mask digging into your face, taking care of 150kg patients, upping the work load by 50 or 100% and many more things was the final blow for me and many more. This work doesnt take care of people caring for people. No biggie though, I am ready to do something else. the Netherlands
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As a UK doctor I’m also leaving hospital life! Minimal pay, constantly understaffed doing more than 2 peoples job load, abused by managers who don’t care, It’s just not worth giving up my own life for anymore
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Great reportage. The NHS is being gutted behind the scenes and has been for years. We really need to bring this into wider attention and hold our political establishment to account. Otherwise, we may well lose the national treasure that is our NHS. A concerned UK citizen.
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My cousin is a nurse in the NHS specialises in Resuscitating babies in maternity care. When her brother my cousin died last November they only give her one day off for the funeral compassionate leave. Is it any wonder they are leaving? Then there was the so called pay rise which works out to be a pay cut.
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Thanks Doctors as you have put your careers on the line to tell us this! 👏🏾🙏🏾
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Hospitals and health services immediately abandoned its staff and didn't stand up gor the healthcare workers ,they were willing to get rid of the workers if no jab,no questions asked just do as the government says.
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They need to put someone who has worked in the NHS as Head of health care!
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They didn't care about NHS staff because they were too busy lining their own pockets and going to parties 🤬🤬🤬
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We're planning to move in Australia pay here in NHS is not enough to pay bills unless you do bank shift.
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Lack of pay always be a disaster in UK 🇬🇧
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Untrainned managers everywhere. They want 100% of your commitment but have zero% for their workers. The partial recruitment is also sickening!!!!
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Nurses,Health care assistants and Doctors are very low paid jobs in NHS uk
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I work for the NHS as a biomedical scientist. I’m contemplating leaving because I’ve been offered double the salary in the private sector and for less responsibility
