Any other retired HCP been contacted to see if they are interested in work?

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I was surprised by a phone call ( for my partner) on Friday from a nursing agency asking if he was interested in work .

He took early retirement 12 years ago ( ! ) and this is the first such contact since then .

And then I heard that asking retired nurses to go back to work and rolling out emergency registration might be part of plan to deal with Coronavirus .So I just wondered if anyone else had had similar .

Mum hasn’t quite retired yet (she finishes at the end of the month) but I know that when she gave her notice, she got a letter from her trust asking how they could get her to stay on - a pro forma type one. This was before coronavirus kicked off. I think they’re just desperate for nurses, tbh, and have been even before the current situation began.

The BBC news website says part of the emergency plans would be to call on recently retired medical professionals to return to work.

Retiring 12 years ago doesn't seem very recent though although I'm sure once a nurse many skills stay with you for life. How does he feel about it?

I wonder how they got the number in the days of GDPR

I thought part of the Tory plan to have ‘000s more nurses was heavily reliant on keeping hold of retiring nurses? TBH rather than training new ones, this would be a good way of getting lots of experienced nurses quickly.

Frangipani Hah, that wouldn’t surprise me. Good luck with that one Tories - mum laughed, stuck the letter into the kindling basket, and set up a countdown timer on her phone to D-day - and I suspect the majority would do the same.

I very much doubt she’ll be coming out of retirement for coronavirus either, given that she’s caring for both her very elderly mother and for dbro who has diabetes and is immuno-compromised as well!

Typical Tory dim bulb thinking. Destroy a profession, drive out the good ones, then when the shit hits the fan invite them back.
Wait until next year when all the European HGV drivers leave, the shelves are empty, and they're trying to get all the old sweats back. The ones who left because they were being shat on.

Largeyellowdaffodil the call was from a large nursing agency ,I guess they were updating their records .

More desperate now to find willing workers that at any time in last 12 years I suppose . Which I can understand .

He's not interested ,personally I think he should consider as we live within walking distance of Kings and the Maudsley and I think he could be of some real help in a minor role .

But I think he has a better idea of what would be involved ,the disorganisation due to pressure of work ,lack of support ,risk of his training not being updated etc .

Will he not have to do a return to practice course? I can’t think of anything worse than going back to nursing after retiring, when I finally finish in approximately 28 years I imagine my mind and body will be destroyed to the point of not wanting to ever do it again!

You'd think so Geraldine .I don't know what the "emergency registration" would involve .

Yes, I heard this.

Some of the “worst case scenario” planning is using the (recently retired) “No deal” template for emergency planning, I think.

I find it reassuring that they’re thinking ahead and have good contingency plans underway.

I think this is a letter sent out to any retired medical staff ,in case of a worse type scenario of Coronavirus .Presumably just temporary .Many NHS staff now retired wouldnt be interested ,but some may do I suppose .

I wonder if the recently retired would want to go and put themselves at increased contact with people with the virus?! They themselves may be elderly and run down after years of working for the NHS-at increased likelihood of contracting it even??

The other obvious workforce they could redirect in a major crisis is the army of (qualified HCP) PIP assessors. I wonder if that is on any plan?

'I find it reassuring that they’re thinking ahead and have good contingency plans underway.'

Unsure about good contingency plans!

Unsure about good contingency plans!

Yes, I would argue against them being very good!’

This is their big plan? FFS, can't believe people voted for this shower of shit.

I was thinking about PIP assessors, and PIP assessments.

I can't see PIP assessment centres being safe places to be, for people in high risk groups. (I'd be one of them.) I can't see PIP assessors wanting to go into high-risk people's homes.

And what about UC requirements for people to attend crowded, open plan Job Centres, and ESA-type assessments?

Nightmare.

I came off the NMC register a few months ago and haven't been contacted by anyone.

I doubt PIP assessors would have much current Nursing experience. Most of them seem to be occupational therapists and paramedics and sit there ticking boxes on a computer screen.
I ended my Nurse registration a few months ago and would be happy to help in a crisis situation but would have to think about my dh with a chronic lung condition and also my other ( new ) work which is also important. In the event of a crisis it's highly likely there is going to be huge extra demand in my new job ( benefits advice) if people become ill and drop to SSP or in the worst case scenarios people die and need to make new claims etc. Hopefully the government have contingency plans for this ( unlikely ! ).

Unsure about good contingency plans!

I doubt PIP assessors would have much current Nursing experience. Most of them seem to be occupational therapists and paramedics and sit there ticking boxes on a computer screen.
I ended my Nurse registration a few months ago and would be happy to help in a crisis situation but would have to think about my dh with a chronic lung condition

It’s being referred to as the “Dads’ Nursing Army”.

I don’t remotely blame people for not rushing to volunteer, especially when they have other demands on their time or relatives with chronic conditions or an age-related risk.

I suppose I was just envisaging more nursing-trained “bodies” on wards performing supportive care tasks (drips, obs, administering meds). So I can see that current registration might be an issue that goes out of the window in a crisis.

I hope it has some viability as a plan, anyway!

I highly doubt retired nurses will put themselves on the frontline for Coronavirus what with them being the more vulnerable group (over 60) for serious consequences of catching it.

Agree with frangipanini. On the one hand they are saying people over 60 are at more risk, than they want the newly retired to come out of retirement.

On the other hand it could be a cunning plan to cut back on paying nhs pensions by getting rid of retired hcps.