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Can we have minimum service levels when there isn't a strike?

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noblegiraffe · 10/01/2023 09:22

Grant Shapps was on the Radio this morning earnestly talking about how important it was to have minimum service levels during a strike so that the public could e.g. expect to be able to phone for an ambulance if they're having a heart attack.

As far as I'm aware, that's not a guarantee right now, strike or not, and there are horrible stories of patients with huge waits for an ambulance despite the urgency, and of patients being told to make their own way to the hospital.

What about minimum service levels elsewhere? Being able to get an SEN diagnosis for your child in quicker than 3 years? Being able to get mental health support?

In schools, your child being taught appropriate qualifications by a qualified teacher in a school building that's actually safe?

Can we have minimum service levels for the government? Actually turning up to votes? Responding to constituents? Not pissing off on holiday while parliament is sitting? Not spending all their time raking it in from second jobs? Having coherent plans for stuff?

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noblegiraffe · 10/01/2023 09:46

What other sectors might be improved if the workers went on strike and minimum service levels were implemented? I read on MN that staffing levels on hospital wards were better during the strike than otherwise.

Being able to register with an NHS dentist? Get an appointment with a GP?

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Spudlet · 10/01/2023 09:50

Get some mental health support that comes from a person, rather than an app?

Get an EHCP that isn’t designed to screw your child over as hard as possible?

So many things might be improved with a ‘minimum service level’!

noblegiraffe · 10/01/2023 09:53

Phoning HMRC and not being on hold for an interminable amount of time.

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noblegiraffe · 10/01/2023 09:54

Get an EHCP that isn’t designed to screw your child over as hard as possible

From an application that isn't auto-rejected on the understanding that only parents that appeal have a chance of getting anywhere?

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Spudlet · 10/01/2023 10:52

Wouldn’t that be nice?

We could even try speaking to said parents like they are valued human beings worthy of the same basic level of respect as anyone else, as opposed to inconvenient annoyances who are a little bit thick. Although perhaps that’s a bit too utopian.

noblegiraffe · 10/01/2023 11:47

Minimum service levels for the police - if someone commits a crime (an actual crime), you could expect that they'd at least investigate?

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