🧑‍⚕️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

@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).
@BigNurseMike @bestforbritain Can I ask, if the cost of living is equivalent too, and essentially whether you have more disposable income at the end?
@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.
@BigNurseMike
Does New Zealand have an NHS or are you private?
@bestforbritain
@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.
@BigNurseMike @bestforbritain when trained as a nurse in the 80s we talked about going to the UK to earn the big bucks.
@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.