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George Cross for the NHS.

98 replies

RealhousewifeofStoke · 05/07/2021 13:30

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

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Medievalist · 05/07/2021 13:36

They’d probably rather have had a pay rise …

Orf1abc · 05/07/2021 13:41

Yay, how about another clap?

Shitfuckcommaetc · 05/07/2021 13:43

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

Tokenism at its finest

DismantledKing · 05/07/2021 13:44

Meaningless crap.

Port1aCastis · 05/07/2021 13:44

Decent pay rise would be a better show of appreciation

NotMineToTell · 05/07/2021 13:48

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

CrouchEndTiger12 · 05/07/2021 13:48

@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!

ahoyshipmates · 05/07/2021 13:48

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

CrouchEndTiger12 · 05/07/2021 13:49

new consultant not number

HermioneWeasley · 05/07/2021 13:51

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.

Orf1abc · 05/07/2021 13:52

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

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

Iggly · 05/07/2021 13:53

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.

FinallyHere · 05/07/2021 13:53

No decent pay rise then.

It's a disgrace.

As for staff paying to park at hospitals.

Iggly · 05/07/2021 13:56

@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.

MrsFionaCharming · 05/07/2021 13:57

Great, where do I pick mine up?

DismantledKing · 05/07/2021 13:57

CrouchEndTiger12

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

TheSockMonster · 05/07/2021 13:58

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.

EnjoyingTheSilence · 05/07/2021 14:08

Fucking ridiculous. Like the weekly clap. How insulting.

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

MinnieMountain · 05/07/2021 14:10

CrouchEndTiger12 might do legal help work.

GoWalkabout · 05/07/2021 14:18

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

blacksax · 05/07/2021 14:27

What a lot of miserable bastards on this thread.

mummabubs · 05/07/2021 14:29

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.

CrouchEndTiger12 · 05/07/2021 14:30

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IDidntFloatUpTheLaganInABubble · 05/07/2021 14:30

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.

JosephineDeBeauharnais · 05/07/2021 14:31

@RealhousewifeofStoke

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