Best for BritainNov 10, 2022

🧑‍⚕️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

Show threadBigNurseMike✅
@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).
Nov 10, 2022 at 8:50amWeb
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.