Zumba Classes For NHS Staff To Cut Sickness [I think its too late]
 

http://news.sky.com/story/1545213/zu...o-cut-sickness

The NHS is our national pride, and is always the helm of any election vote

But the CEO of NHS England has brought this new idea, that they should look after there staff, to help cure the high sickness rate for staff.

I have a simple solution - pay there staff, from below stairs as they say, right up to Drs and Nurses decent pay. This is why they always strike for decent pay

And l heard that some Drs and Nurses, have to pay parking fees to work at the hospital where they work

And they also have to pay rent on accommodation

This would relieve stress from the staff, and this is half the problem solved. We have a chronic shortage staff in this country for Nurses, and its always hard to get good Drs

This would also help to decrease sickness, and stop hospitals using Agency Staff that cost the NHS thousands per year

I am sure there are members will say that l am whinging, but most companies do have arrangements with local Gyms

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You got that right.
Also your rambling, if by paying them more will stop them taking sick days then the sick days they do take are fraudulent & they need to be held accountable for BS'ing thier snickness & be sacked.
Spend a moment to think before you ramble Arfur :dunce:

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Don't you think NHS staff deserve more money ?

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No, no more than anyone else. Where does all this "extra money" come from? shall we pay teachers less so NHS can pay more to their staff? What about taking a few % out of the police, fire, armed sevices wage packets? Oh I know lets all pay more taxes to pay for these wage rises. HeyZeus ach Christo you would be first to bitch, whine, complain & moan if taxes went up.

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Well duh!! of course they do, you think they should live rent free?
How would paying them more decrease sickness exactly? If my work gave me more money I would still take sick leave when needed?

My work has its own gym but its still £25 a month so most people don't use it.

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Where do you think the money is coming from, Arthur?

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The doctors & consultants don't imo

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He doesn't.

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Junior doctors do

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What a shocker that people who work with the sick have a higher rate of being off sick themselves than someone working in an office :p

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Plenty of 'office jobs' are highly stressful both private and public sector.

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It's almost as if infections were, well, infectious !!

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Interesting report from NHS Wales.

Unusual for a work-place that just over one-fifth of sickness absences should be to unknown or not specified causes.

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My previous gf was a nurse, had been in the position about 3 years, very hard working and never off sick. She was called into the office one day (This was 10 years ago) and asked why she hadn't used any sick days, she was then told that she needed to take some of these sick days.

It appears that sick day entitlement was treated like additional holidays by most nurses in that trust, and someone not taking them reflected badly on the others.

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They could soon turn that around by not paying for absences for a 'no specified' sickness absence.

All staff ought to be obliged to speak to an occupational health nurse when reporting sick, to receive information and guidance on their symptoms. The first three days of sickness should be unpaid.

That package of measures, together with a proper system to monitor and limit the number of short term absences before action is taken will resolve this problem.

Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen without government intervention of some sort because NHS Human Resources departments are too weak.

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Mmmm.. so we've added "NHS workers are skivers" in addition to the "poor are scoungers" .. nice

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Astounding.....:(

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I prescribe a dose of self employment to treat absence due to sickness, especially when the reasons are unspecified. It's highly effective.

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I am all for improving accomodation costs and parking costs, but the nhs giving out pay increases is the last thing they can afford at the moment, and last I checked the current levels of pay are quite good anyway.
https://www.rcn.org.uk/support/pay_a...-rates-2015-16

Millions of people would love a 21k salary.

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But would they be willing to undertake a 3 year course to get it?

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no idea, but the wage is reasonable regardless.

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Meh, seems at or slightly below average for graduates according to this - http://www.graduates.co.uk/graduate-...es-in-2013-14/

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Nurses know full well what the wages are before they sign up. Then as soon as they qualify they moan about it. The worse thing they did was to introduce the nursing degree.

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Although this is not far off the incoming National Living Wage which is £14,227 rising to £17,784 in 4 years time. 21K does not seem unreasonable for work they do ..

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I tend to agree. Of course caring and academic qualifications aren't mutually exclusive but there's no doubt in my mind that something has been lost when it comes to the basics of caring within the NHS.

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Zumba classes my backside...

Genuine stress is underestimated and can be a killer, either suddenly or gradually. Zumba won't cure it, changing working practices, decent pay rates and being valued for the job they do would help. Trained nurses in particular have an absurdly low pay rate given the amount of responsibility they have; they are now carrying out procedures which only Dr's used to do and leading clinics . Being a woman dominated profession and not going on strike hasn't helped. They have been taken advantage of by successive governments and taken for granted by the public. No wonder they are stressed and there are recruitment problems.