A grim day...

[crish72 0]

i dont work here but i know a hell of a lot of people that do....600 job losses is a huge amount! :-(

NHS trust announces 600 job cuts

A North Yorkshire NHS trust is to axe 600 jobs - a third of its workforce - under plans to save £10m, union leaders have been told.

Managers from the Scarborough and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust gave the news to staff on Wednesday.

Chris

[thegoth 5]

I read that too and couldn't believe it. How are the remaining staff going to cope? I wouldn't want to get sick in Scarborough!

[crish72 0]

Not good at all...thing is they arent going to find out who is going for at least 6 weeks!

This will knacker all the surrounding towns up too as their hospitals are part of the trust..

[mike 6]

not good, - i thought this was gonna be another 'i crashed my vr' post tbh

[matth76 1]

Not good at all. Total knee jerk reaction, instead of finding out the root of the problem. In my opinion it is primarily lack of money from the government, but also the way government decide huge pay rises for the top managers and GP's etc. I couldn't believe it when I heard that most GP's earn at the very LEAST 104k a year (quoted from recent documentary). Only 10yrs ago they were on 30-40k a year. Huge price hike, and they have actually reduced all their hours, which I think is a good thing - but not to raise their pay at same time.. I could go and ask my boss to work less hours but ask for double what I'm getting - doesn't quite make sense. And the top managers in the trusts are on more than double this. Problem is it's totally disorganised and badly run but yet they get paid huge amounts of money. Feel sorry for the proper workers who work so many hours and now have to face news like this - this kind of thing should only happen when faced with less demand for treatment - the number of patients is always increase each year, and yet they close casualties and do this kind of action. It's not "debt" that the hospitals or trusts face - it's the lack of funding from the government to meet the ever increasing demand in treatment.

...rant over!

[Extremecheese 0]

For me, what gets me angry when something like this happens is the fact that the people who do the decision making of 'who should be laid off' are generally the people who be laid off themselfs.

So we are told that 600 jobs will be cut - I can almost guarantee that those jobs will consist of 600 of the lowest paid people working for the NHS, leaving the overpaid bloated waste of space arses who flounder around getting piss-all done whilst creating emails to substantiate their professional existance still in employment.

I think it's an abomination that a service such as the NHS should be measured by job numbers and not pounds, - if it were then at least the right people would be getting the bullet.

/rant over too (sorry I'm a bit of a lefty!)

[crish72 0]

Well rumour has it that the higher wage earners will be the first ones looked at, then the ones in non clinical positions, I.T etc....

[VR6Lee 1]

GO PRIVATE :-p

Why should us tax payers pay for a Shite service.

I opted out and went private.

Its a safer enviroment and the food is top ya get red wine with ya lunch and everyone speaks the Queen's English.

NHS (st) (sends a shiver down my spine)

reminds me of water in plastic cups they give ya to drink with ya slop of a dinner .

[VR6Lee 1]

(au)

[mike 6]

GO PRIVATE :-p

Why should us tax payers pay for a Shite service.

I opted out and went private.

Its a safer enviroment and the food is top ya get red wine with ya lunch and everyone speaks the Queen's English.

NHS (st) (sends a shiver down my spine)

reminds me of water in plastic cups they give ya to drink with ya slop of a dinner .

Fair play to you, i cant aford that however...does sound amazing tho! seen one bloke on teh telly had to goto india for a heart operation as they wanted him to wait a year..and he only had 6 months to live.

matt: 104k! christ wonder why they mostly have naff cars...saw one witha new 350Z tho