Comments on: Premiership Good Guys Donating Wages to Nurses

By: K Staines

K Staines — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:45:28 +0000

I feel that although May day premership pay check giving is a great idea. I do not think nurses, like myself, would like to be thought of as charity cases. Many of us work for a relatively small wage due to the love of the job. Most of us have more than one degree and almost all nurses pay for their own further education without funding, for instance although hardship funds are available they are not always paid out. I believe the only way for a good wage to be paid is to privatise healthcare and then we will all have to pay in some way. Inevitably what we pay for will be what we get and then Nurses may then also be treated with respect ? Its not the low wages that are the problem but the lack of respect the public has for nurses who only want to provide a good quality service anyway how disrespectful is it to expect footballers to pay for our hardship funds to help us get on? Thank you a fully qualified and educated first class nurse

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| nursingwages.info — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:27:15 +0000

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| nursingwages.info — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:42:56 +0000

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Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:45:36 +0000

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By: Patrice Le Gatuer

Patrice Le Gatuer — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:08:11 +0000

Whilst I think the campaign to highlight the low wages of the country’s nursing staff is all good and well, I am a firm advocate of charity donations being nade anonymously. There is no need to publish the names of those who have given. As a consequence, you’re making those not on the list look as though they don’t give to charitable causes as well. Your’s is not the only charity out there, and many of the players not mentioned on your site give freely to other equally worthy causes.

By: Richard Irwin

Richard Irwin — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:04:02 +0000

I can’t see how nurses can get more wages from the system; they deserve more but where is the money going to come from?
A possible answer and probably the fairest answer: “to cut the wages of doctors; why not, they do a similar job and get up to six times more wages, plus doctors are simply highly qualified nurses”.
Doctor’s salaries should be lowered to £40,000 and nurses to rise to £25,000; this will make the system fair and the NHS budget can stay the same.
This should be non-negotiable to all new doctors and nursing salaries to rise within 3 years.
Food for thought…
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