George Cross for the NHS.

[RealhousewifeofStoke]

Love it
Wonderful recognition of what the frontline staff have endured and continue to deal with throughout the pandemic

They’d probably rather have had a pay rise …

Yay, how about another clap?

I still haven't recieved the fabled 1% pay rise.

Tokenism at its finest

Meaningless crap.

Decent pay rise would be a better show of appreciation

Big deal. How about we get actual recognition with a pay rise, more staff and more resources to do our job properly.

@Shitfuckcommaetc

I still haven't recieved the fabled 1% pay rise.

Tokenism at its finest

This really opened my eyes though this article.

www.bbc.com/news/health-57690068

"Mike Henley, a consultant urologist in the East Midlands, says consultants' pay has been steadily eroded compared to other salaries in the public sector.

"I want to get back to fairness. Like everyone, I would rather not stop doing overtime," he says.

"But consultants do incredibly busy and stressful jobs - and we are underpaid compared to lawyers, for example."

Hell fire a NHS consultant thinks his kind are underpaid compared to a lawyer. He is welcome to my 10 year + pqe salary and unpaid overtime. It is considerably less that of a NHS number consultant working in London and he thinks we earn more!

This has been awarded personally by The Queen, not by the government.

new consultant not number

The deification of a taxpayer funded service is a mystery to me.

We have destroyed the economy, education, businesses to “protect the NHS”, and now it gets an award? Insanity.

This has been awarded personally by The Queen, not by the government

Such vast power and this is the best she can do. Tokenism.

Hell fire a NHS consultant thinks his kind are underpaid compared to a lawyer. He is welcome to my 10 year + pqe salary and unpaid overtime. It is considerably less that of a NHS number consultant working in London and he thinks we earn more!

“His kind”

Listen to yourself.

No decent pay rise then.

It's a disgrace.

As for staff paying to park at hospitals.

@HermioneWeasley

The deification of a taxpayer funded service is a mystery to me.

We have destroyed the economy, education, businesses to “protect the NHS”, and now it gets an award? Insanity.

Protect the NHS was a nice tag line.

Think through what they were actually doing.

The health service has been so underfunded that it couldn’t deal with the patients who would need care if covid was allowed to run riot.

So in order to make cases manageable, numbers had to be kept down. Otherwise you’d have a huge number of people who needed Intensive care but couldn’t get it.

So the NHS wasn’t really protected as such, but that’s the strap line they used. Because people tend not to think about things in any depth.

Countries around the world have done similar - we aren’t unique in that respect.

Would you have rather that swathes of dead bodies piled up? Because actually that’s what could have happened - it could have been a lot worse.

Great, where do I pick mine up?

CrouchEndTiger12

I suppose the difference is that consultants are actually useful to society.

My first thought was that it’s a cheaper alternative to funding it properly, especially since it is likely to have another rough winter ahead.

I think there is real public will to fund it better at the moment, even if that means raising taxes. Although a properly funded NHS and social care sector should also save a lot of money in the long term.

Fucking ridiculous. Like the weekly clap. How insulting.

How about ensuring proper funding for the nhs and decent salaries.

CrouchEndTiger12 might do legal help work.

We need law and all the other jobs very much 🙂 its not a competition.

What a lot of miserable bastards on this thread.

As an NHS worker I'd personally appreciate it much more if services were properly funded, give staff pay rises that meant we at least hadn't been taking the equivalent of a pay *cut for over a decade and for no more of the tokenistic clapping show. A colleague of mine did say they'd now be adding George Cross to their email signature, which at least made me laugh.

Paying a decent wage and giving a decent pay rise for the amazing work they have done and the sacrifices they have made would seem a lot more appropriate to me.

@RealhousewifeofStoke

Love it Wonderful recognition of what the frontline staff have endured and continue to deal with throughout the pandemic

HMQ specifically said the GC is awarded to all staff (past and present), in all disciplines, in all UK nations. It’s not only for frontline staff and not only for Covid.