To hate the whole NHS heroes mantra

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As the title says. I’m a nurse and to be quite honest the whole ‘nhs hero saves the day’ tripe really pisses me off. I’ve worked in healthcare since I left uni and the amount of useless colleagues I have who genuinely don’t give a shit about patients annoys me. My ds is disabled and the attitude of some staff towards him has been disgusting. I think as nhs workers some of us are good and some bad and we don’t need worshipping.

How mortifying is that clapping now. Dh said so at the time and refused to do it as always (annoyingly) he was right. Remember there were threads slagging off non clappers. Madness.

Ex nurse, hated that whole ‘angels’ nonsense. All that doorstep clapping during covid was toe curling!

I don't know anyone in real life who thinks this. It's a Daily Mail soundbite. Most NHS workers I've interacted with have been fine. Not great, not bad. Just people doing their jobs, mostly conscientiously enough. A couple who took the piss and a couple who went the extra mile, same as anywhere. My GP readily admits that I know more about my slightly unusual condition than he does and its not surprising. He's a generalist, I have one condition that it benefits me to read up on.

The majority of my nhs friends share the same view

Agreed. I'm a nurse of over thirty years. It never was, or has been a vocation.
Just a job.

It's their actual job. They get paid to do it. They are free to leave if they don't like it.

As in all walks of life there are people who go above and beyond. But there are also lazy NHS staff who spin the system, incompetent staffs who it's impossible to sack and terrible mismanagement of people and resources.

If you go in with a simple problem that's easy to fix on the conveyor belt system of GP - Specialist - Treatment then all well and good. But if you've got something that is a bit strange that needs a bit of investigation - no chance.

Like any organisation, there will be good and bad staff. The problem is that the NHS in its current financial and administrative structure needs to be completely scrapped because it's 70 years out of date and not fit for purpose. But when one says this, then one is accused of having a go at NHS staff - not at all. I know quite a few doctors/nurses, and without exception they would all shift to some kind of insurance system that provided accountability, value for money and professionalism. Sadly, the "great British public" don't get it and just want to Save Our NHS, without understanding anything about it.
Oh, and people doing a job they are paid to do are obviously not heroes!

Glad to see I’m not alone. I never once clapped/banged a saucepan and neither did dh! I dreaded Thursdays because ds1 would have an inevitable meltdown due to the noise. Oddly enough I had this conversation with a colleague the other day and she seemed appalled that I didn’t join in/don’t see our job as some kind of heroic gesture. I chose to work in the NHS and although I wish I was payed more, I am payed for it! This same colleague was bemoaning the Oliver McGowan training because ‘we aren’t a mental health service’ so we don’t need to understand those with developmental disabilities!?

I think the word hero is too easily banded about. The NHS treats its staff terribly, as do most medical institutions, but its what you sign up for... no point going into medicine expecting an easy ride, you know its long thankless shifts full of other people's bolidy fluids. A hero is someone who does something extraordinary that isn't expected of them... like the nurses who sat next to my husbands uncle when he was a child and the air raid sirens had gone off but he was too ill to be moved... that's a hero.

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