IanNov 10, 2022
Best for Britain

🧑‍⚕️Average salary of an NHS nurse: £33,384

💼MP basic salary: £84,144. Plus £67,505 if a Cabinet Minister.

🧑‍⚕️NHS canteen prices: £7.25 for macaroni cheese

💼House of Commons Members' Dining Room: £5.67 for a gourmet roast rump of beef dinner

🧑‍⚕️NHS parking: £25/day

💼MP travel: expensed

NHS nurses have been refused inflation-matching pay rises for 12 Tory years. It’s time to pay them properly.

#NHS #UKpolitics #nurse

Nov 10, 2022 at 7:49amWeb
Show threadvnvobitNov 10, 2022
@bestforbritain it’s been no for quite some time. Always thought the MPs failed to ask the right question “what should the salary be to eliminate dependency on agency staff and encourage a greater take up of nursing as a career?”
Undoubtedly higher than current level but a better use of cash than looking to privatise health care
Show threadCrocodilecatNov 13, 2022

@vnvobit @bestforbritain

No. Not even close. Nor are teachers and TAs. Use of private agency staff should be banned, or the amount they can charge should match what the NHS pay - which should, in turn, be much higher.

Show threadDebby AllenNov 10, 2022
@bestforbritain Simple. NO.
Show threadImogen DempseyNov 10, 2022
@bestforbritain I saw this graph yesterday. Then add in the cost of living effect (food inflation was over 11% last month). It’s not right they are paid so little whilst doing so much for all of us!
Show threadBill DeMayoNov 10, 2022

@ImogenDempsey @bestforbritain

~38k USD yearly for a nurse is criminal. I work in a hospital and we pay our dishwashers more than that.

Show threadAutisticMumTo3Nov 10, 2022
@bestforbritain
Nurses are not paid enough especially as they are such highly trained professionals. & the HoC Members dining room needs to be replaced by a works canteen that everyone who works there can use even the cleaners.
@chrisvasta
Show threadAutisticMumTo3Nov 10, 2022
@bestforbritain
NHS parking fees need to be scrapped
@chrisvasta
Show threadWilliam 🌱Nov 13, 2022
@AutisticMumTo3 @bestforbritain @chrisvasta I agree for staff/long term routine illness/family. I think there should be a cost for everyone else. It should be a lot less than it is but ultimately anything that puts people off driving when they could use public transport is a good thing imo.
Show threadAutisticMumTo3Nov 14, 2022
@WGK90
There needs to be a far better public transport system if you are going to do that. There are whole villages round here who haven't seen a bus in decades. Also exemptions for those that can't use public transport such as autistics who can't cope with buses, many disabled, parents of multiple birth children who still need a buggy, etc
@bestforbritain @chrisvasta
Show threadWilliam 🌱Nov 14, 2022
@AutisticMumTo3 @bestforbritain @chrisvasta I agree, I've lived in some pretty rural parts of the South West and you're right, public transport needs to be far better than it is right now, we need more rail lines in rural areas, not to London.
Show threadKevin WattersNov 10, 2022

@bestforbritain This is the shame of our government. It is their responsibility to deliver an effective health service and instead they are driving it into the ground.

The most disgraceful sight I’ve seen for years was the then Prime Minister standing on the doorstep of No10 clapping every Thursday night and ignoring his responsibility. Did he actually believe that nurses can survive on a round of applause?

Show threadRabitionNov 10, 2022
@bestforbritain Nowhere near enough
Show threadTed Smith #ProEUNov 10, 2022
@bestforbritain Shocking reading. The Tories take us all for mugs.
Show threadKarinaNov 10, 2022
@Ted @bestforbritain Makes you sick to the stomach that we pay to be abused!
Show threadEllzSummary #FBPENov 10, 2022
@bestforbritain You could also add the skill, qualifications and expertise of nurses are undermined continuously in Govt by those unqualified and at times far less educated to comment.
Show threadCMDR R Mons, Graham LinuxNov 10, 2022
@bestforbritain Don't forget the tens of thousands that MPs and ministers can claim on expenses.
Show threadBigNurseMike✅Nov 10, 2022
@bestforbritain Let me put it this way: I moved from England to New Zealand in May. I do essentially the same job, see roughly half the number of patients, and took an immediate 50% raise in take-home pay just by moving.
And New Zealand nurses are underpaid by international standards (vs. Australia, USA, Canada in particular).
Show threadMattNov 10, 2022
@BigNurseMike @bestforbritain Can I ask, if the cost of living is equivalent too, and essentially whether you have more disposable income at the end?
Show threadBigNurseMike✅Nov 10, 2022
@forelioned @bestforbritain Some things cost more, some less. We find it quite comparable, but we moved before energy price rises. NZ gets most of its power from hydro so it hasn't been much of an issue here. We are far better off financially, even being in Auckland. No more juggling debt every month.
Show threadDeadly HeadshotNov 10, 2022
@BigNurseMike
Does New Zealand have an NHS or are you private?
@bestforbritain
Show threadBigNurseMike✅Nov 10, 2022
@dheadshot @bestforbritain It has a public health system similar to the NHS, and also commissions private specialist providers in the same way. Funding is normally through Ministry of Health, except if you have an accident. In that case you're covered by ACC, a state-owned insurance company. You have no right to sue for personal injury, but you are always well insured for it anyway.
Show threadJimbob86Nov 10, 2022
@BigNurseMike @bestforbritain when trained as a nurse in the 80s we talked about going to the UK to earn the big bucks.
Show threadBigNurseMike✅Nov 10, 2022
@jimbob86 @bestforbritain
Between 2010 and 2021 my take-home pay fell by about 25% in real terms. I don't know when I last worked a clinical shift in England that was adequately staffed (47000 nursing vacancies in England right now), or that didn't see me caring for multiple patients in environments that were too low acuity vs. their needs. It is genuinely terrifying right now, and getting worse all the time.
Show threadGuestyNov 10, 2022

@bestforbritain absolutely not - no one can eat claps.

Funny how quickly they've gone from Covid heroes to selfish greedy causes of inflation.

Look at train drivers salaries, thats where public servant pay should be if they had a stronger union.

Show threadDaveboneNov 10, 2022
@bestforbritain it would be interesting to see how a nurses salary has increased since 2010 compared to an mps
Show threadRunning4LA7ExcludedNov 11, 2022
@bestforbritain no, the work they do is priceless and could be called on to save your or my life today. We should pay them what they’re worth, every penny.
Show threadDidactylosNov 11, 2022
@bestforbritain of course they are..... until you need one then wow, you would pay whatever it takes..... as with so many other vital jobs that are currently way underpaid in our system
Show threadDigitalgerry ☘️🇫🇷Nov 11, 2022
@bestforbritain Remember these people are making life and death decisions every day. They identify early deterioration regardless of care setting their actions, or lack of have implications. And when there isn’t enough of them delays to decisions and actions happens. The healthcare sector is not safe unless we invest in nursing. Regardless of care setting.
Show threadcufcmanNov 11, 2022
@bestforbritain no
Show threadpianomarcNov 13, 2022
@bestforbritain really it’s just disgraceful. Mam was a nurse, they’re drawn to the job because it’s in their personalities and not for the money. The exact opposite to what drives this current bunch of “celebrity” MPs who try to force a version of themselves into very undeserving positions for which they assume a personality is a qualification..it backfired big time on Liz Truss. And the money they are awash in is obscene compared to how nearly all NHS staff are treated, I mean £25 a day for parking isn’t just bonkers, it’s actually insulting.
Show threadSueNov 13, 2022
@bestforbritain
No and never will be under the Tory Goverment. Hunt froze pay before and advocated for NHS privatisation and will do it again
#SaveOurNHS
#FairPayForNursing
#GTTONow
Show threadThomas AustinNov 13, 2022
@bestforbritain Yes, but probably only for the first hour or two of their shift.
Show threadColNov 13, 2022
@bestforbritain nope, and neither are any of the 14 professions within the #AHP family.
Show threadTollyTB 🐢💨 :coolified:​Nov 18, 2022

@bestforbritain

The nurses 'average salary' really is a misleading figure.

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