Experiences of working in private healthcare

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Specifically a private fertility clinic.
I’ve been nhs 17 years but have seen a nursing position in a private clinic.
i can only see 2 glass door reviews, one ok, one poor.

You don’t get an NHS pension, and you don’t automatically get pay rises when they do.

Are there other benefits?
I have read the cons are workload can be heavy, no flexibility & high level of responsibility for the pay. Just want to see if any pro’s.

I enjoy working where I am, my only gripe is not having the NHS pension.

In all honesty I’ve got a horrible suspicion we won’t have an NHS in about 10 years. So you’d be getting into the private system before everyone else!!
I work in the NHS and thinking about getting out. Lots of colleagues thinking the same. I’m afraid I don’t have any experience working in it that I can give you, but the loss of the pension is something I’m thinking about very carefully. Having said that as I said I don’t think the NHS will be around in its current form in the future so 🤷🏻‍♀️everyone will be losing the pension!!

I would imagine the working environment is a lot lot nicer as in the buildings are better
Newer medical apparatus
Doctors who have time to give the appropriate care anda you would have more time to deliver care
Opportunities to move around?

Just thinking from my experience of using private health care I much prefer it to the nhs

@Blanketwars i think you may be right.
I have been for promotion to an 8a in another service but didn’t get it, I’ve been advised to go for it again in my service. But I’m not feeling it, there is a culture of working late, coming in on days off etc & I don’t buy into that. What frustrates me in my current role is that most staff continuously abuse the nhs sickpay, carers leave etc. I’m thinking in a private company this wont be as generous? The private company building is new & high tech & 5 mins away from my house. I guess I’ll go to the interview & see what feel I get.

**As previous poster it might be a nicer environment.

That said, when I went in for surgery in a local private hospital this summer, I walked past an office meeting of clinical staff and as I passed the door, one of the nurses ran out sobbing her heart out as if she'd been given an awful performance rating or something. She was trying to hide her face against the wall so other staff didn't see her.

So it might not be all perfect.

However there was air conditioning and the rooms were really clean which wasn't my experience of the NHS when I gave birth.