It is disgraceful to have this situation for anyone working in healthcare, where things don't happen on a 9-5pm basis and doctors, nurses and HCAs work nights and weekends.
As a doctor in NZ 🇳🇿 I used to be able to have access to meals at any point of the day or night, and we had a doctors' area fully stocked with 24-hr overnight access to food, let alone sanitary products and other essentials.
Once you speak to folk who worked in NZ when the
#NZRDA was pulling out all the stops year-on-year on negotiating the MECA, you realise how far behind we are, and how hard it is to stop the exodus of healthcare staff from the UK to peer nations which treat their residents so differently (yes, residents, not the archaic
#JuniorDoctor term).
The
@NZResidentDocs negotiated annually for a better contract, they just didn't mess about...
So it's not just the baseline salaries which has gone from half the UK's to double/triple the UK's over two decades, but you have so much there where the welfare of staff was prioritised, and it makes such a difference. I do recommend junior doctors spend at least some time working in peer countries (hopefully before returning), so we know how much the gap is with here 🇬🇧, and how far we are from bridging this.
@MealsForTheNHS @heidi_ed @_VivekTrivedi @DrEilidhMaria @BMA_JuniorDocs
@shaunlintern @BMA_James_Steen #juniorcontract #timetolisten #nhs @NHSMillion @wesstreeting @keepnhspublic @NZRDA
Can you see why there is no good will left in the NHS. We do 12h shifts 7 days a week. Is it too much to ask for hot food on the weekends?