End NHS Staff Shortages

Deal with Huge Medical Staff Shortage in NHS

Over  100,000 unfilled medical vacancies in UK NHS
Current doctors and nurses getting burnt out by that.

To deal with your
high NHS waiting list for treatment. 
To save your life when emergency.

FOREIGN MEDICAL STAFF 
  • Huge NHS recruitment drive, worldwide, of foreign doctors, nurses, midwives and paramedics, fully trained and experienced. Already able to read, write and speak advanced English. 
     
  • Recruit fully trained NHS mental health nurses worldwide. Already able to read, write and speak advanced English.  

  • END THE REPAYMENT CLAUSES plunging foreign medical professionals into debt bondage in NHS.
  • End UK visa fees for NHS medical staff from anywhere in the world. 
• (Now (2021) £624 visa fee charge is also paid by spouses and children, meaning the total cost can reach £8,000 for a family of four on a five-year work permit.)

  • NHS medical work permits for foreign doctors and nurses, to be permanent. 

FULLY GRANT PAY DEMANDS OF NHS STAFF, British or Foreign
  • Fully grant pay demands of NHS nurses, junior doctors and ambulance workers. 

  • All NHS staff to be paid same British wages, not less, citizen or not, with same work contracts and must sign up to relative trade union. 

NHS HOSPITAL CAR PARKING 
  • Free car parking on NHS car parks for NHS staff, patients and visitors. 

PRIVATE HOSPITALS 
  • Requisition of private hospital medical staff  to NHS to help clear NHS waiting lists.
    At no cost to the NHS. 

NO PRIVATE GP PRACTICES 
  • All GP practices to become NHS again, with no compensation to the private companies.
     
  • Worldwide recruitment of trained and experienced doctors (not locums) for
    GP practice work, with no Visa costs and permanent work permits, already able to read, write and speak advanced English. 

  • Free elocution lessons for new worldwide recruited medical staff, to pronounce standard English correctly, so understood by British and other nationals NHS staff and patients alike. 

UK STUDENT NURSES 

  • All UK student nurses to be part-time employed as Healthcare Assistants from day one, progressing to trainee Nursing Associates, so part ward based trained, and part medical school trained.
    Getting a wage and accommodation whilst training. 

  • Free medical school tuition for NHS student nurses.

HEALTHCARE ASSISTANTS 

  • Free medical school training for UK Healthcare Assistants (and other basic training) and for them to progress to Nursing Associates, still working part time as HCAs. 

FUNDING 

  • Ring-fenced budget for NHS, bring about Wealth Property Tax on assets of millionaires and billionaires. 
  • End NHS hospitals paying Business Rates.
  • End NHS hospitals paying VAT on medicines. 

  • Tax private hospitals. 

  • Put VAT on medicines for private hospitals and private prescriptions. 

BACKGROUND
END THE REPAYMENT CLAUSES plunging foreign medical professionals into debt bondage in NHS and END NHS WORK VISA FEES for staff, spouse, dependent kids.  
..."It costs (NHS) employers about £10,000 to £12,000 per recruit up front – but saves them as much as £18,500 in agency fees in the first year alone. In some cases, trusts can be paid up to £7,000 by NHS England for each overseas nurse they recruit.
Yet unlike their UK colleagues, those who leave before their contract ends can find themselves footing a hefty bill, an Observer investigation has found – even in cases of bullying, discrimination, 
ill health and family emergencies."... 
..."The repayment clauses – which typically last three years and can cover everything from flights and visas to initial accommodation and training – are widespread in the NHS and private sector, although terms differ and not all employers use them."...
..."Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers"..."pointed to the government’s code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care staff in England, which says “no individual should be charged fees to gain employment” – but does not mention repayment clauses."... 
..."The Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB), said that, as with all jobs, there was a “normal rate of attrition” involved with hiring from overseas that employers had to factor in. “Companies have to accept that as a business cost,” Neill Wilkins, head of the IHRB migrant workers programme said. “The British government’s own modern slavery statement says recruitment costs should be borne not by workers but by employers.”... 

WOULD INCREASE MEDICAL SCHOOL PLACES & FREE TUITION FOR NHS TRAINEE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS - funded by Wealth Tax. 
..."107-page blueprint"...:workforce plan produced by NHS England"..."The document says that while the UK currently has 7,500 medical school places, double that – 15,000 – is required.
Similarly, the number of trainee GPs in England needs to jump from 4,000 to 6,000 and the annual supply of nurses to increase from 29,865 to 52,722 – a 77% uplift. The plan also says that the number of dentists needs to rise by 40%, and of physiotherapists and their allied health professionals by 20%.
The NHS needs to increase the overall number of all types of health professionals it trains from 66,032 to 102,484, a 55% rise, the document concludes."... 

FREE TRAINING FOR NURSES AND MIDWIVES with a part wage instead of lost bursary as Healthcare Assistants (so helps in NHS staffing and ward based training from day one).
..."In 2015 the Government scrapped bursaries worth up to £20,000 for nurses and midwives and replaced by them with student loans."..."Royal College of Nursing Director Patricia Marquis said"... (government) ...started charging people tuition fees to become a nurse."...

DELIVERS IMMEDIATE NHS STAFFING SOLUTIONS by immediate recruitment of around 154,000 needed foreign NHS doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists and paramedics, already fully trained. Fully funding increased staffing and pay demands from Wealth Tax. 
Tories and Labour alike will not help as shown by ..."NHS England ... makes clear in 107-page blueprint, workforce plan, its view (that will not hire )... overseas health professionals"... 
..."A long-awaited workforce plan produced by NHS England says the health service is already operating with 154,000 fewer full-time staff than it needs, and that number could balloon to 571,000 staff by 2036 on current trends."... "Those 571,000 staff are the equivalent of more than a third (37%) of the service’s existing 1.6 million-strong workforce."...
..."The 107-page blueprint" ...says "the NHS in England will have 28,000 fewer GPs, 44,000 fewer community nurses and an even greater lack of paramedics (medical ambulance staff) within 15 years."..."Services in rural areas... already struggle to attract enough staff"...

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