Julia Hartley-Brewer grills nurse over strike action 

Nope

Yes

Nope!

Put it this way I don't know anyone that gets over 32 grand a year having to go to food banks

No!

Booom Iris well said.

The NHS looks after its elderly very well.

@@kamaldeepjohal9372 I have waited 2 year for treatment so don’t give me that. I have just given up like a lot of people. Just a statistic at the end of the day

@@kamaldeepjohal9372 my mum died in hospital, was taken by amnulance into a ward and died 6 hours later without seeing any doctor and nurse told me i was only allowed to see her for an hour-nurses do not deserve a pay rise

@@mikechapman8896 sorry for your loss

That most with professional degrees earn? Really?

Clueless Julie - change your mentality.

Really...a front line Sister in charge of department ward earns less than 30k, she has to make life changing decisions every hour of every day...can you do such a job?

You have just had a 10% rise in your pension. Perhaps you should spend some of it on private health insurance and not bother the NHS with your problems you ungrateful old (use your own expletive)

Given what this govt are paying out for criminals crossing the channel on a daily basis to abuse the system, giving our hard working nurses a decent rate of pay is peanuts, there is no excuse whatsoever not to pay them a decent wage, the money is there, this is pocket change.

Don't be that person

@@footlong4769 That is not a rebuttal

Yep that’s what they were doing literally the whole time wasn’t it? 🙄

That’s because the death and hospital occupancy figures were total BS.

You sir are deluded, as a specialist RN in the NHS for 25 years I can tell you no job is a 100% secure in the NHS we get pissed about pillar to post by inept management , forced to work in areas you are not skilled for, not paid for overtime, no bonuses for working extra or through covid like the private sector and GPs who do f all, Many of us work 12 hour days and due to staff shortages and increasing workloads often do not have a lunch break.....do you suffer that on a daily basis ? The pension is now rubbish, and constantly being dwindled. You dont know what you are talking about, no RN wants to strike but this is the only way we can assert our views strongly enough, and patient care will not be affected due to the administration of the strike, unlike this government we are not irresponsible.

@@rule3036 you sound a little bitter the nurses union as with most public sector unions are HARD left and this is a move on the government they are no longer held in high regard now

well why dont you apply then

Absolute BS! Where did you get that utter rubbish from?

Absolutely spot on comment

@@kevbillows7113 Furlough equals inflation. Remember that now.

They wanted lockdowns to try and save peoples lives, including their own. 200,000 dead in the UK and still climbing. How many would it have been, if we had let the conspiracy theorists run the show. Give them their pay rise. Clapping for them was nice, but just doesn't pay the bills. Nurses weren't in lockdown or furloughed. They worked right through the pandemic.

@@shanjanusman9974 furlough at the time was necessary but my god it has created some incredibly lazy, greedy and entitled people who are no longer prepared to work hard, it's sickening

@@philmuggeson1849 The furlough was never needed.

Blame the government you idiot. You can’t because you voted for them and brexit. Welcome to brexit Britain, less nurses and less money for NHS. I’m sorry for your father, but his situation isn’t making you see the forest for the tress yet???

@@tariqjoseph3562 😂😂😂 calm down dear. I got no time for the Tories the same as I have no time for Labour. Ah, The tolerant left. So compassionate, so caring.

@@jjl8906 you could’ve fooled me 🤣😂 let me guess….. you’re Reform 🤡

I stayed in hospital recently and during the night people were ringing there buzzers all night and not one of them answered it

They weren’t all doing absolutely nothing, many were standing around loudly complaining about how badly they are done by, whilst keeping sick people awake in the middle of the night.

@@katieadams3080 probably because they were under staffed, and had to prioritise the more needy.

Yes same thing I noticed when my gran died

@@louisetaylor2131 Same when my sister died, they sat around and when you asked for assistance, they weren't very forthcoming. They certainly didn't instil any confidence and my sister didn't receive the care. It was unacceptable.

@Tom i couldn't agree more Tom, also when you consided that these practices were being carried out effectively by private hospitals succonded in to a government melting pot, i think there should be alot more we should go back to when talking about the NHS.

My wife has worked for the NHS for over 20 years and every year it gets worse, pay is way below what it should be, care of both patients and staff are being compromised with the stress and pressures placed on staff etc.... If anything, I'd say your mother would be more sympathetic than anything else.

@@footlong4769 becsuse you knew his mum more than him? Who the hell are you to make that assumption?

@@philmuggeson1849 ok Billy big bollocks. Is this your first day on the internet? You're making the assumption I don't know his mom..... You're right, but who are you to assume I don't? Stop being a tit and take a breath

@@footlong4769 you make a comment claiming a strangers mum would think differently to what her own son was saying and I'm the tit? A village is clearly missing its idiot

This chap hasn't got a clue about economy. 17% for nurses would create a huge impulse to inflation. I'm sick of raising taxes and one of these can be the last straw before I leave UK.

Well said.

Managers who have spent over the last 2 years sitting on there backsides at home, in their Jim jams.

you still have a GP though .would phone an ambulance if you needed to You would-go to A&E. If your private healthcare didn’t treat you properly would go to the NHS to put it right

As an interest,what's the tax on 30k in England theese days

After getting a degree? Really? Maybe you should do what everyone is suggesting nurses do and get a better paid job elsewhere

I was a self employed painter and decorator for 30yrs and never ever managed to earn 30grand a year, not complaining just saying--

yes but what job do you do, did you train for 3 years plus for your job

100 & correct

Bring back the Matron on the wards its all about Organisation

Well said, totally agree.

I agree. well said

Definitely true. I have never been into any other work place where so many people seem to be dossing around having a laugh. If it was Amazon they would get the sack for standing still for too long.

I took my late Father to an appointment. We were the only ones in the waiting room. We had to sit in the dark. While this was happening, three nurses and one doctor were laughing and joking in the doorway. After one hour I got up and confronted them all, "You have each been here for one hour each". "That's four whole hours wasted, or half a working day"! "Is this going on all over the hospital and that's why we have been kept waiting"? The nurses scuttled of. The doctor told me to go and sit down. "I ended the conversation by telling him that I thought he was careless, unprofessional, and encouraging laziness amongst other members of staff, when you should be leading by example. The dance routines, and wasting precious time will be a daily, unanswerable, unexplainable, and sadly unquestionable, total nonsense.

@@martinhambleton5076 sorry about your Father, it’s exactly the same every time I take my daughter to the hospital to see her heart specialist. Always running late, nurses standing around bitching with each other and having fun. Patients/carers or loved ones queuing up to find out what’s happening. I will keep it polite and say it’s a bloody disgrace, the patients are treated with no dignity whatsoever. The NHS is not fit for the purpose, sack them all and only re employ the ones that are of any use to us. There are plenty of staff in the NHS all they need is a rocket up the backside and have some management that understand how to get stuff done. Envy of the world my ass !!

Do you have something against immigrant nurses?

@@damienadama not in the least however if there’s a communication barrier that can’t help my elderly relative who’s faculties are compromised due to stroke.

That exactly mirrors my 2 week stay in hospital. Some were brilliant, some were awful. My room was right next to the nurses base and during the night-time they chatted and played on their phones 90% of the time.

I’m glad someone else has experienced this. My mum was in hospital from December last year to March this year after a horrific fall. I was constantly trying to assist other elderly female patients who were being ignored when they either wet the bed or worse and were left to eat unaided when clearly couldn’t. I’d go to the nurses station to find them all gassing! There were a few good nurses but I was left shocked by some others

@@ME-hr8dl goodman. It isn't the fault of those nurses but it is the fault of people offering those indentured slavery contracts. Part of the reason why a load of those countries are still poor is cause we are taking away all the skilled people like doctors, nurses and such and then basically tie them into so much debt they can't do anything until their years, loans and terms of service are met. It's funny that in African nations a trained nurse or doctor could be selling illegal drugs as a way to make cash on the side due to them being so poor. We are still ravaging the Poorest Nations and forcing their people to sell themselves into slavery

and when i ask someone who works in the nhs and ask them why don't they find some other job? The reply is PENSION! PENSION is keeping them there.

@@tonyschiavone950 im in it because its a vocation

Money doesn’t grow on trees

@@tonyschiavone950 absolutely true, every word.

@@carnivore2938 More like a vacation.

Never forget. Never forgive.

@@SawBoss591 absolutely, they should have all stood together and refused the experimental jab.

Yes how dare they be happy in their work or have a bit of a laugh.🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@@owlinthewood say what you like, people won't forget this mockery, you know very well the hospitals weren't full of victims of the lurgy, so stfu.

Omg stop moaning about quality of life going down. You want to work and do what I do, but everyone can move on if not happy. I would love to earn 30 grand a year. I have no sympathy for them. Do a tik tok dance routine like when they were "run off their feet though

I was in hospital for 5 days last year after a gynaecology op. I was having trouble with pain control and one of the nurses said I could stay if I wanted because they had nothing much to do 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Went in for a procedure, sat waiitng to go donw to surgery from 7 am to 3pm the whole time i sat watching 5 nurses get up and do a bit of paper work once and hour, each one of them took one of the five patients that were wsiting myself included, out out tags on us took all of 30 mins if that, the rest of the time they wrre sat talking. My surgeon never stopped all day, i watched him coming doing the pre ops then rushing back to theatre, then coming bacj and repeating. I found it odd given the fact we're told the nurses are the most hard working out of all the NHS. Some are, especially A and E nurses, but not all of them are. Some of them get oaud a fortune and they sit around for 50% of their day. If nurses want more money they need to be more cost effective.

@@libertasdemocratiam887 What you raised is becoming more a common feature now. Its the inefficiencies - It shows very poor and weak management, there is a predominant"left" wing culture in the NHS and this feeds right up the command chain.

@@webbo9798 tbh I've been having issues for years with them, I've been under my main outpatient clinic for 20 years. For a start the operation I'm waiting to have, well operations, were offered to me by my original consultant, he wanted to do give me the new joints when I was 19. He retired and I got a new fella who wanted to wait and now I'm stuck on the sick, can't eat (well I can... it's just baby style food... I could murder a steak🤤) sleep eventually comes but it's never restful, and I can't work because of the combined symptoms plus I have the same problem that's caused the degeneration of my jaw joints in multiple other joints. The NHS is so far behind that what they think I have they don't have a simple genetic test for, this is despite there being a test for it out there. The only way they could diagnose me with what they think I have is to send me to a a specialist centre of which there are I my two for the whole UK, one is in London and one in Sheffield. If they sent me they'd have to pay for me to stay either in a hospital bed or a hotel, because the diagnosis process takes a good couple of hours. This is one instance of the NHS clearly not using the increase in it's budget to make the NHS more cost effective. I may have to have a special blood test of it turns out I'm allergic by skin to the metal used for the joint replacements, apparently your skin can be allergic to something and your insides not, anyway this special blood test is conducted in Germany, so I have to go to aintree hospital that isn't my local hospital to have this blood test then my blood has to be flown to Germany and tested in this lab within 24 hrs...how much does that cost?! How much would our own lab cost? It's high time nurses and the rest of the NHS staff started to find ways to save money and make the NHS efficient, if they do that they can have their payrises. Until then they can get stuffed, they're taking the Mick out of outpatients who will be the ones who bear the brunt of any stres just like we did during covid. Don't get me wrong other people will be harmed but emergency care and urgent care will still go ahead. It's the waiting list of non urgent or emergency that's the biggest problem. I wonder how many people are on the list like me who want to work as well but can't due to I'll health. Sorry this is an epic read but this topic really gets to me, as annoying as all this is at least the public at large are now seeing the problems with the Holly church of the NHS, if you get subpar care complain! We are their customers it's high time they started to listen to us.

@@libertasdemocratiam887 Sorry to hear of your experiences. It sounds a rare type of problem your suffering from. I hope you finally get the treatment. best of luck to you.

@@webbo9798 it is and that's where the NHS struggles most, anything that isn't big standard you're stuffed. Thank you anyway.

I'm not a nurse or a doctor. I'm a physiotherapist. I've had 3 people die on me during active chest clearance treatment. It's just part of being a respiratory physiotherapist. There are many other areas where you're fighting to keep people alive, literally, that only nurses and doctors will do. We don't get time off if someone dies on us, we don't get counselling, we don't get a break, we keep going and willingly do unpaid overtime so we can hand over properly so that happens as infrequently as possible. So with all due respect, stuff your seven years of staring at paperwork and making math calculations.

@@steph6109 there is counselling available to all nhs workers ask for the phone helpline number

@@steph6109 People dying on you is the nature of the job, if you have issues with it dont do it! In the military you have people dying on you all around you including your comrades, you dont get time off for that, or overtime as you are on the job for 6 months at a time. This is something you sign up for and know it may happen at any time within your career and they get paid a hell of a lot less than a new nurse.

Matom_Sky son, come your wet arsed hour, whenever it comes, you'll be begging for the expert aid and care nurses provide

Well said, these NHS worker want to try Engineering at the bottom end.....crikey they'd soon lose some weight and be soon scurrying back to the reception desk for some cake...

@@JavaAndroid so true

I don't think they do that every hour of every day....

The same nurses that are on a very good wage as it is

@@ant292uk you can't say that as there is a band/pay structure that is very varied. They don't get paid all that well. Some do but mostly due to doing bank which is like agency work.

@@footlong4769 starting salary of 27k. I can definitely say that

Top heavy managers and way to much waste, procurement is just a joke, such waste and run like the mafia.

It too cold for a picket line they could maybe strike "from home" instead...

Unless you're a researcher, or were in a too vulnerqble for the employer to risk you coming in contact sith the virus category, who in nursing got furlough?

@@steph6109 As my better half was a nurse she has met many of her former colleagues who told her they had been furloughed as their wards had been closed.

was not just nhs staff who got furlough you numpty

@@peterramsden3134 Thank you oh brain surgeon. I was making the point that Joe Public didn't know that their beloved NHS staff were furloughed during the plandemic. And they were, as told from the horses mouth, so to speak.

lol - bot? or just deluded/

Twisted dancer agree but it's left wing and woke to boot.

The NHS is politically neutral but unions are not.

How can the NHS be politically neutral, it’s a socialist institution. How can something as serious as healthcare not be political???

@@whateversunpopular1338 yes but it isn't socialist in itself.

@@esm7708 if it’s built on socialist principles then it should remain socialist at least to a degree. Something as serious as healthcare must always be at the heart of politics.

when we stand together change comes

Shaun, you wanna keep up then, son

I am so sorry that you were not bright enough to get a better job.

Yes we all need a wage increase, but if you dont take a stand and just eat humble pie ,you never get anything

Every time they show nurses on the news they are of mixed race or Indian or from Pakistani WHY DO YOU NEED DIVERSITY MANGER ?

Cut all managements pay.

Well of course this was instigated by Warmongerer Blair, when he was in power, and look at him now, laughing all the way to the bank.

Other countries require nurses to have degrees, I wonder why? 🤔

@@s.a.y4117 they don’t need them either

@@suetracey3333 there is a shortage because US Canada Australia Ireland Germany New Zealand and Switzerland are trying to entice nurses and pay them more. The shortage isn't just in the UK. Many nurses have migrated.

I would be terrified if my nurse doesn't have a degree. It is my body and I want the people who take care of me to have the proper training and qualifications.

agree more money will mean less staff so actually they may have to domore or some work at last

Everyone wants to be a special case and that’s why we are in the state we are in .

It's part and parcel of a post industrial economy. When you have no R&D or production in your own country you will always end up with a service economy where one half is well paid top bankers and the other scale is paltry wages shelf stacking operators.

In most places it will mean staff numbers will increase. All the managers will have to work out skeleton staffing levels and hire agency workers to help meet that minimum. A lot of places are already below the legal safety minimum set out by royal colleges and healthcare societies.

The staffing will be at bare minimum levels. The catch is most shifts are already at bare minimum. Many dangerously so.

@@TopherL But surely most people who go in to nursing are compassionate, caring people. How could they allow people to suffer due to their strike action? It is not like the nursing profession are poorly paid. There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of people in the UK who are on minimum wage which is at least £10,000 a year less than nurses get!!

@@TopherL Then you are saying since people will die without you and people will be without you if you go on strike then people will die!! Don't you think if the wages for people in the care sector are too high then it will attract the wrong sort of people who are just there for the money and don't care about the patients?

@@TopherL Poor is relative. You are not on the poverty line like about a third of this planet's population. It is greed that causes people to migrate to Private Health Care professions. I have seen it first hand with my dental practice. It was taken over by BUPA a few years ago and a little while later my dentist went private and then others followed until now we have a situation where they cannot find a permanent NHS dentist to join the practice.

You forget that basically all wards became covid wards so all nurses were essentially being emergency care nurses!

There’s a body count now.

and shop discounts etc

And bring in a rule no cakes or chocolates to be eaten on site....

Remember the way the police treated people during the covid bullshit who dared to have a coffee or a chat outside? How many police officers recruited who have a criminal record? No they don’t deserve a pay rise.

Isn’t that what nurses do? Don’t they know they’ll have to care for injured & poorly people when they decide to take the job? If they don’t want to deal with car crash victims then choose a different job. If you don’t want to arrest violent criminals don’t be a policeman. If you don’t like fire don’t go in the fire service. You know what the job entails before you go into it…. surely?

no they don't

She’s a Tory.

why did I have to scroll this far to see a sensible comment?