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The market alternative is locum jobs rather than private work

Thanks. Even then, is that step from permanent to locum the only change you can make?

Can you punt yourself as a locum around hospitals until one pays you something you are happy with (like any job), or are hospitals restrained by guidelines as to their locum payrates as well?

Can you punt yourself as a locum around hospitals until one pays you something you are happy with (like any job), or are hospitals restrained by guidelines as to their locum payrates

Should clarify that I'm not a doctor and am only repeating what family have told me. Locum rates are negotiated by staff banks (not individuals) so they reflect local supply / demand a bit more than the nationally bargained rates.

Three hour power cuts being planned.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/06/national-grid-warns-households-could-face-three-hour-power-cuts-this-winter?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I used to work at Whittington hospital in N19, Doctors locum rates were harmonised across North London, to stop the "You only pay X, I can get Y somewhere else"
IIRC the rates were set based on average rates for the grade, so not necessarily higher than salary rates (not worth quitting a full time job with sick pay and full annual leave rights for)

Nursing is generally the same as their substantive rates, so also not worth doing instead of a permeant role.

Agency rates can be much higher but hospitals generally only use these in a dire staffing emergency and need lots of sign offs.

not worth quitting a full time job with sick pay and full annual leave rights for

I suppose this is the rub. The Dr I discussed it with was trying to get out of a punishing on-call schedule in an understaffed unit, which was what made locum-ing more palatable.

Oh yeah, they are all over worked and underpaid (even if earning a solid 6 figure salary)

Thank goodness we clapped our hands for them!

Lots of chat RE that in Northern Ireland...but we are on the Ireland grid, not the GB one, so it's not clear yet what will happen here.

Don't think I can run my laptop from a dynohub ... ;)

Depending on what speciality a nurse has they can go in to jobs in GP surgeries.

Quite a few surgeries now employ nurses/paramedics/physios directly which is seen as a way out of the NHS for quite a few.
I can’t talk about nurses but for paramedics it’s similar money to the NHS banding, no weekends or nights and still lets you pay in to the NHS pension. It’s proving popular as an escape route for some and they seem to be trying to recruit more and more.
As most surgeries are private companies now, it’s worsening staffing issues in the NHS and slowly but surely privatising my more and more of the health service.

Biden pardoning all simple marijuana possession convictions. Quite something.

Compare with https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63115171

Celebs suing Associated Newspapers will be interesting

https://twitter.com/briancathcart/status/1578072483101638656?s=61&t=_VQJFBApd-erTDtD-uZCQA

Got a bit caught up in this earlier:

https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1578325252970803203

Whilst I broadly sympathise with their cause, it all felt a little self-indulgent. Thousands of people will have been inconvenienced by them blocking such a main road, many of whom would have been on their way to the hospital just a little further on.

I reckon there must have been around 80 police officers, along with around 20 vehicles of various kinds deployed to try and direct the traffic and stop members of the public from getting 'involved'.

I am sure those resources could have been put to better use.

Not the right kind of protest huh

genuine (a little culturally ignorant) question; how does one protest? If a 'protest' is at everyone's convenience is there any point?

Am not sure protesting environmental issues that are affecting everyone is self indulgent. Do you consider Ghandi, the suffragettes, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela etc etc to be self indulgent?

I don't think you need to inconvenience large amounts of people in order to make a point.

As I said, I am in favour of the cause, but becoming disenchanted with the method, which I feel may become counter-productive.

I also don't think it is necessary to cause random and mass inconvenience in order to 'protest'. Rock against Racism would be an example of a movement that took a different route.

Spot on

I don't think you need to inconvenience large amounts of people in order to make a point.

That's how protest/strike/etc. work generally.

I think if you were trying to get to a hospital, maybe to see an oncologist, and were prevented from doing so by some retired geography teacher from Guildford asserting their right to glue themselves to a pedestrian crossing, you might think they were being self-indulgent.

Wait till you hear about the tube strike.

Oh here we go again

That's OK - you can run them over with your Range Rover, then grift off the sweet merch deal.

I mean, aside from the fact that inconvenience you is basically what a protest is meant to do, there are many alternative routes from there to St Thomas's and your ad hominem attack is irrelevant.

What you're saying is you don't think their cause is important / pressing enough to warrant the action. Don't wrap it up in pretending to care for a hypothetical cancer patient so it divests you of any responsibility for you opinion.

to be clear, I also think that protest achieved nothing, but I think their actions has the possibility to lay the founding blocks of something that might change things. so even if they're a bunch of unbearable middle class crusties from the home counties we should warrant them their opinions and use it as a chance consider what we could do to alter our thinking and actions for the better

you might think that but you’d be wrong, surely. maybe the other way round even, and I’ve been to plenty of oncology appointments.

So if Ghandi et al made someone late for a medical appointment they were self indulgent?

They should have put on a concert instead?