The NHS Is Dead – Long Live NHS Staff.
The NHS as we knew it has gone – most probably for ever! Labour Shadow Secretary for Health, Andy Burnham, has stated that he will repeal the Health and Social Care Bill if he is Health Secretary in a Labour Government. He may mean it sincerely, but, whatever is salvaged, it…
Ambulance Staff Are Health Partners Not Sparring Partners.
Ambulance Staff are not employed to be hit, punched, threatened, abused or assaulted!
The Holy Trinity – Ambulance Style.
Rest Breaks – Rosters – Annual Leave! The Perfect Ambulance Holy Trinity! It is rumoured that Albert Einstein moved on to write The Theory Of Relativity because he found it easier to do than trying to solve the Ambulance Holy Trinity! The famous Bletchley Park World War Two code breakers cracked The…
999 Bonus – Nein Nein Nein!
LAS UNISON want all our members to have extra money in these difficult times of Coalition austerity, but, bonus schemes to meet government targets are not the way to do it. We oppose these types of bonus schemes as divisive and wrong within an emergency service. Let’s deal with the targets and Coalition policies that bring these problems…
Humbug!
Personally, I am as far removed from a Scrooge figure as you can get (I’m not talking to you Cratchit, carry on doing those accounts, and do put that crust of bread down, you are requested, and expected, to work through your meal break) but at the moment life in Britain…
Dig In, Wear A Tin Hat, And Recruit!
Public Services, and Public Service staff, are under attack. The National Health Service is being brought to its Sixty-Four year old knees with every blow. This is not being done by some foreign power, natural disaster or fifth columnists. It is being done to us and the people of Britain by our own…
Ambulance Belle!
Well, I didn’t exactly say that I would eat my own head if the London Ambulance Service appointed its first ever female Chief Executive, but I doubted that the title of my next blog would be Ambulance Belle! Well here it is! I was wrong!
“My Name Is Chris And I Spout Rubbish!”
If your name happens to be Chris, and you happen to work in the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) at London Ambulance Waterloo Headquarters, and you also happen to live in Romford, don’t be surprised if you are receiving looks that could kill from your colleagues!
They Think It’s All Over…
The Olympics and Paralympics are over! It seems like they have been around in Stratford for ever doesn’t it? There is no doubt that they have been a huge success. The whole country has been sport mad for the last month. The newspapers are full of the ‘feel good factor’ and…
Don’t Fall Asleep At The Podium!
As we all enjoy the Olympics let us not forget that the Coalition Government is still beavering away in the background destroying Public Services and the Welfare State.
