It must always be remembered that social progress in Northern Ireland is imported not endogenous so let us examine some of its outworkings and prescient costs at the present time. We should bear in mind that we need a social revolution such as occurred in England in the seventeenth century to enshrine the rights of man in law, particularly in the Constitution. With that social revolution we must curb the power of bishop,doctor Andy judge to enforce unjust laws and legal controversies on us.
The demand for harmonised percentage pay increases by consultant doctors, teachers and higher-up civil servants in NI has spread to the South,if recent media reports are to be believed.
Politicians should ignore carping consultants and managers of the ambulance service superstructure. They are involved in medical crime and open intimidation.
Instead,let us factor the nurses £1 700 one-off payment offer and 4.5% salary increase into final-salary pensions.
My late sister's trade union,Unison,must be free to go onto hospital wards at off-peak,non-emergency times to recruit and encourage,inspire and uplift,hospital canteens being the best locations acceptable to management and nursing managers.
Let strikes be a last resort for nurses or is it to be hat-pins at dawn?
The Free State?
Let us ignore Southern medical consultants and senior doctors special pleading as we would ignore all special interest groups. They are already very well remunerated unlike the poor and unemployed down South who are barely surviving. In the unlikely event that there is real evidence of suffering or misery or want, financial help and adequate accommodation should be made available to medical specialists.Let us keep tight restrictions on male 'millies' in medical representative bodies, pharmacy and dentistry.
Some do not do their job properly.
Many senior doctors and experienced nurses lack moral conviction and belief in any type of provision for the health of the poor and indigent and migrant.
Typical of that type of medical supernumerary in both jurisdictions is the Senior Registrar attached to a horse Protestant psychiatrist.
Let the Stormont Minister of Health take note.
Doctors in the North who practise as G.P.'s?
Don't make me laugh,Mr. Robin Swann. Those people are living off the fat of the land.
The Minister of Health in the South?
Southern consultants who desire to engage only in private practice,Minister Donnelly?
Cut doctors' pay and salaries and establish a Social Support Fund for gifts in kind and in cash to needy cooks, cleaners, electricians, plumbers,carpenters, boilermen, drivers, groundsmen, care staff and ancillary staff and their families in association with trade unions. Tell medical professionals' trade union officials to get lost.
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Fractious elements? The public nuisance created by some public employees?
The consultant-led 'deserving cases' who are featured in tiny, left-wing publications are creaming it off the top.
The voice of the patient and beaten-down?
Stick to David Cameron's, Teresa May's and Gordon Brown's plans to help poor families at a propitious time,good men and true.
Honest people,speak up like even Boris Johnson did for those who have noone to represent them.
With the recent referendum in mind...
Those who voted for Britain to leave the European Union must be rewarded higher social security benefits. They have performed an invaluable service to all of society by cutting people loose from the deadwood which is undemocratic European Union officialdom.Similarly, we have been distanced from Dutch industrial products traders. We must also part company with a bent and unrepresentative set of gerontocrats. I am referring to the leaders of the official trade union movement in Europe and North America.
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25.11.2022
The big question of public finance
Anyone who talks about spending more money on the health service without independently verifiable results and adequate safeguards for the thousands who die in medical care every year,is out of touch with reality. The first thing some NHS doctors who I have met do is to flout elementary standards of human decency and break the laws protecting a patient from serial defamation and violent misconduct.
Until a closer look is taken at the NHS and its staff, particularly senior nurses and ambulance centre managers,more expenditure would be wasteful and counter-productive. The evidence shows that everywhere more money is spent without measurable accountability to the patient,his family and,in my case, ultimately,a court of law,standards of medical probity fall and general outcomes deteriorate.
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25.2.2023
Reform. Pay differentials
Great work has been done in reducing pay differentials in education. Let the matter be taken in hand in the nest of vipers that is medicine and the NHS to reduce income differentials.
Increase the pay of the lower-ranking nursing and care assistants,nurses in lower grades and hands-on junior health managers. Bring down senior doctors and consultants' salaries.
In the interests of actualising human rights law,let there be a court referral after a police doctor or social worker with a military family background has someone interred in a psychiatric hospital. The burden of proof must be put on the many wayward doctors in our hospitals.
REDUCE INCOME DIFFERENTIALS!
If doctors had a genuine vocation,they would accept salaries commensurate with no more than four times that of a trained nurse or junior health service manager.
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12.3.2023
Current affairs. Controversy
There is no justification for giving doctors and nurses pay increases tied to average wages inflation. That leads to serious crises in government finances,low productivity and widespread disenchantment with that type of society, one which allows itself to be held hostage by doctors, nurses, policemen, civil servants and teachers. Those people are living in dreamland. Go onto a hospital psychiatric ward for proof of sloth, ignorance, unmannerliness and rough treatment of people with very serious health conditions such as rhenal problems from drinking too many fluids, particularly late at night. That's an old physiotherapist's and hospital manager's trick to block up beds and create unnecessary distractions, stress and worry for patients and hospital staff notably the lower levels in staffing availability and grades....
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We say to psychiatric doctors,"Stop talking about work,and get some done yourself!" We say so particularly to people with higher incomes than they need or are entitled to for effort. Some people earn their crust by the sweat of their brow while some medical public employees go from one day absent to holidays determined not by politicians or administrators,but by TV and radio and media commentators. Media pundits are out of touch with reality.
The public wants reform of the health system and dentistry,public and private. All attempts at change in Britain and America end up papering over the cracks and bringing even greater problems. No government and no modern country can afford these exorbitant wages increases being demanded bluntly and.openly without the danger of social breakdown. Social welfare claimants would be the cause of that phenomenon. The latter know that doctors and nurses are not doing their work even reasonably well,much less independently of the media and the police service in any country. We must embrace change publicly and those bound by the rules of medical confidentiality, privately as well.
The watchword of labour?
The politicians are pawns of the media, who the English refer to as go-betweens or go-fors...
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14.3.2023
The question of violence in our hospitals
The exception does not disprove the rule,namely that protection from violence in the NHS psychiatric gulags is urgently required.
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The junior doctors have embarked on a three-day withdrawal of labour. How to meet reasonable demands for higher salaries?
Firstly,the NHS must curtail bed-blocking and reduce consultants top-heavy salaries and over-laden expenses accounts.
How to fund the NHS junior doctors pay claim without enhancing relative privilege and copper-fastening pay inequity and social unfairness?
In the press,reduce the unhealthy emphasis on medicine.
Make the NHS "a lean,mean fighting machine" (1983).
Secondly,partly privatise underperforming services and sectors and introduce streamlining and some competitive tendering. End Private Finance Initiatives and Public-Private Partnerships. Reduce over-staffing by cutting what are described as safe staffing levels in directives and guidelines.
STOP THE UNHEALTHY EMPHASIS ON THE NHS.
NHS psychiatry has become for many people not a crutch but a police baton,a system of internment and interrogation centres, medical gulags and nursing homes.
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5.4.2023
Strikes?
By all means support strikes BUT, remember, many in the public sector are not doing their job properly APART,that is,from in blue-collar trades, engineering, electrical, cooks, cleaners,groundsmen, auxiliary and ancillary or transport and related fields. The quality of their work is first class and compares very well with any private operator,often being a trend-setter. That is why,when public sector pay is being negotiated,transport and related fields are first out of the traps as the most determined and vociferous opponents of lacklustre employers who,like all employers,think that they can walk over people and take their employees for granted. The last out of the traps in terms of pay negotiations are the handful of building workers still in the public sector and ancillary staff for different reasons. One set is largely unorganised and the other much too vociferous for their own good.
In the end of the day,we all have to COMPROMISE unless we are very WELL ORGANISED.
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16.8.2023
Levelling up
In line with the basic principles of social justice,let nurses accept a 5.5% pay rise and a £1 700 lump sum and electricians a similar increase but let cooks,cleaners, groundsmen and ancillary staff receive the District Council increase of 19.4% to 19.5% wages increase and junior doctors pay demands be reasonably paid,though not in their entire mass,perhaps close to their £20 per hour demand. The latter seems justified since they all seem a good old sort, trying their best. (We have to look elsewhere for doctors who malign their patients. They are invariably General Practitioners and Consultants acting at the fiat of "experienced" nurses,latch-keys in other words).
Let consultants salaries be frozen.
REDUCE DIFFERENTIALS!
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