[Gavin78]

We have 140 patients on our Ward treatment costs 50k a year each. we have 30 staff

That's 7 million a year just for treatment

1 senior sister on 45k a year
3 junior sisters on 35k a year
13 staff nurses vary between 21-28k a year
13 healthcare's vary between 12-19k a year

Rough guess I would say 900k a year for staff

Treatment costs don't inc buying new machines that they need or some of the other stock we use.

So I would say roughly 10 million a year goes on patient treatment - 900k for staff wages is a small amount in the NHS budget in the grand scheme of things so why people moan at a 1% payrise is beyond me?

When patients sometimes don't turn up for treatment then we have to allocate a member of staff to find out where they are because they haven't answered the door and we have an obligations to follow up incase something has happened. we then have to inform the police who have to go to the property (worst case) they kick the door in to make sure persons are ok but then all this time and money is wasted. then there is the machines we have ready for them that have to be done before they turn up well we can't re-use the stock it has to be thrown away so that's £350 then the transport service charge us £70-£150 which they would anyway but in this instance the patient wasn't in so we get charged anyway.

what do we get in return when we try and tell them about wasting NHS money, well I've paid my taxes I can do what I want and I was out. Sorry but you've not paid 200k in taxes for the 4 years of treatment you've just had and that is what annoys me when the public moan about staff wages in hard times and patients abuse the NHS costing it millions in wasted tax payers money. If fingers want to be pointed lets look at the loss the NHS has every year due to time wasters.