Wednesday 26 January 2022

The SNP Straw that Broke Scottish NHS's Back; Scotland's health service could face a major exodus of staff as almost two thirds of nurses considering leaving their jobs, overworked, underpaid, massive staff shortages, ministerial incompetence are creating the perfect storm which could see the service implode, Nicola Sturgeon's government weak response, phone a helpline, learn "coping strategies", seek mental health counselling, SNP have no interest in addressing serious problems in Scotland









Through-out this Covid pandemic, the staff of the NHS were praised to the hilt by the government, prior to the Covid drugs being rolled out. The staff worked unvaccinated, they worked with poor PPE, they worked longer hours. They were praised by everyone, an initiative was done, that once a week at a certain time, people would clap in the streets in the early evening. But times have changed, once praised by government ministers has now changed in recent months to threats for the same people who saved lives face losing their jobs. Their crime, not wanting to take experimental Covid drugs. We are not talking a few staff here and there, we are talking thousands of trained staff at every level of the NHS. So, what is their concern, is it justified? Should their right to choose or reject a medical procedure be protected? The problem with experimental Covid drugs is, there are side effects, death and serious injury across a whole range of illness. In order to conceal the deaths and serious injury, the government decided to move the goal posts so that a person who was injected wasn't considered vaxxed until after 14 days, this way a huge amount of deaths and serious injury was wiped from being recorded from the official statistics. People were lied too, people were subjected to an organised campaign of constant fear which involved a multi level strategy, government, NHS, big tech, big pharma, the media and celebs all joined into pushing vaccination on the population. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOlEYcd1nyI 

The media has been exposed, instead of being apart and above it all, they have become a part of the State apparatus. For them, there is no going back, there is no repair to their credibility or indeed their reputation. Some people have already started backtracking, you will see more of this as time goes on, they will seek to reinvent themselves as a 'voice of reason'. These are the same people who were effective vaccine cheerleaders, not just part of the crowd but right out in front, berating people for being slow to get jabbed and vicious towards those who point blank like the Dr in the youtube. So called trusted Drs actually came on TV and lied straight down the camera to the public. One of them is Dr Hilary Jones who on a Lorraine Kelly show said that the majority of Covid patients in hospital were unvaccinated. This was part of a narrative used to say that this pandemic was a 'pandemic of unvaccinated'.   

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2022/decision-complaints-hilary-jones-itv-lorraine 

You can watch this clip on youtube, he makes a false claim, but ofcom isn't going to take action, in their report above, they actually say that, "we have told ITV that greater care should be taken by trusted medical experts when presenting facts and figures on public health issues." Their report also says that they will not launch a formal investigation into this matter, and that means they are brushing it under the carpet. Dr Hilary Jones will continue to be a 'trusted' Dr on ITV as he has been for countless years. To me and many others, this individual should be permanently removed from our screens. He wouldn't of course, as he is seen as being part of the cosy elite who service the establishment. If you check out his wiki page, you can see exactly what I mean in regards to his links with the establishment. Once people start crunching the numbers on data emerging relating to covid deaths, and that includes those who died within the 14 day window, and the vaccine injuries, you can expect a significant shift in public opinion. One aspect broken beyond repair is public confidence in public health messaging, that is truly dead now. The next few years may see a medical tsunami unfold which the government, media and big pharma will try to explain away as non vaccine related. Already the cracks have appeared and publicly, the number of young men and women in sports who have had heart attacks is beyond previous norms. All discussion on this has been repeatedly censored on media sites like Youtube, Facebook and Twitter which has led to the growth of alternate media sites like Bitchute, Brand New Tube and Rumble. The Covid pandemic will see traffic leave the muzzled sites thus reducing their income and popularity. 

Just as the NHS was praised by politicians at the start, we should remember that the NHS has been under attack for many years in the UK. Underfunded and under staffed, wrong-headed policies, top heavy management and yes, even woke has infected the health service. There is a school of thought in politics that you can do what is call "efficiency savings" and get the same service with less staff and less money. This is usually called 'cuts' by normal people, and no, you don't get a better service, or the same service, you get a worse service and longer waiting times. If you ever find yourself in hospital, you will be in for a shock, how long it takes to be seen, how long it takes to get surgery, and how long it takes to get an all clear. Just before lockdown started, I had two cataract operations, I was extremely lucky, the current wait for a cataract operation has recently been reported as 92 weeks. The actual operation is a day operation, in and out same day, it is very quick once in theatre and the results are life changing. It is no fun going blind or seeing your sight gradually getting worse as a heavy fog creeps forward in your field of vision. 

In this pandemic, the NHS has been struggling badly, temp hospitals were built mainly for show, then never really used, then closed down. A total waste of money running into millions and millions of pounds. Then there is vaccine injured who need NHS help through no fault of their own, they believed in the hype, and are now paying a severe price in their personal health. In answer to a recent question on how many people died solely of covid, the number is circa 17,000 deaths, the other 133,000 who died had what is called co-morbidities which means they had underlying health conditions like cancers or heart problems et al. Because the NHS was stopped from normal operation, this created a huge backlog of health problems, with an underfunded and understaffed service, and time being a factor in treatment, people died who did not need to die. It is one thing to see the odd patient die, most medics can cope with that, but when it starts becoming a continuous stream even the most hardened medics start to crack. Now, the cracks are coming to the public domain, we get information that almost two thirds of nurses in Scotland are considering or actively planning to leave their current job. They cite “unsustainable pressure”, they give reasons for wanting to leave included feeling undervalued, feeling under pressure, staffing shortages and pay. You cannot keep working people until they drop, it is a bad management model, sometimes, an you may experience this, if you are worked too hard, you end up feeling like something is broken in you, that could be physical or mental. 

One thing which everyone knows in Scotland in hospital is that patients feel that the nurses don't have the time to give an essential but overlooked issue of treatment, the human factor. It seems that nurses are ran into the ground, and are saying they were too busy to give patients the care they would like. The SNP Government attack on the NHS in Scotland started in 2007, this was when Alex Salmond gave Nicola Sturgeon the role of Health Sec. This was to give the false impression that 'Nasty Nicola' had changed and really she was a warm and caring human being. Sturgeon and her cabal literally poisoned the health service, and started the process of it being destroyed from within. After 5 years, in 2012, Sturgeon was moved on for the 2014 independence referendum, she got out just as the bad stories started emerging how mismanaged the service actually was. Everyone who came afterwards was pathetic or inept, or completely out of their depth. Notably failures after Sturgeon in the role of Health Sec are Shona Robison, Jeane Freeman and Humza Yousaf. Each of them didn't turn round the service, didn't reverse cuts in a meaningful way, didn't do enough to get new staff, didn't understand that universities needed to produce more home grown nurses and doctors. So, what do we have now, well according to RCN Scotland interim director Colin Poolman, he said the current situation was “unsustainable”. The SNP boast about how Scots have the ability to do things better, but they wouldn't fund enough places so that Scottish students can fill the 5,721 nursing and midwifery vacancies reported last year. Then there is the issue of the rest of the unfilled vacancies in the NHS in Scotland. Scotland isn't an attractive place to work under the SNP. 

Colin Poolman said: 

“These findings paint a worrying picture of the pressure that Scotland’s nursing staff were under before the most recent wave of the pandemic. Staff are working unpaid overtime, are under too much pressure and unable to provide the level of care they would like.” 

If this is as Colin Poolman says a “wake-up call” to the Scottish Government, then Humza Yousaf will be sleeping through the alarm going off. Yousaf isn't a leader of men or women, he is a Sturgeon stooge, I personally doubt if he is even an "ally" of Sturgeon, but he is smart enough to know that 'loyalty' at least publicly is financially good practice.   

Poolman added: 

“The Scottish Government must commit significant additional funding to provide and support a sustainable workforce as well as the implementation of safe staffing legislation. We simply cannot afford to expect nursing staff in health and care settings to carry on working understaffed and poorly paid.” 

The opposition in Holyrood aren't slow to realise that health is a viable issue to campaign on for their electoral chances. The Scottish Conservatives said the survey results are “deeply concerning”. Shadow health secretary Sandesh Gulhane said nurses were “beyond breaking point”, and called on the Government to take urgent action. Jackie Baillie, Labour health spokesperson, said: 

“We cannot re-build our NHS after the pandemic if our nurses are ready to leave the profession in droves. It’s high time that the immense pressure that our nurses are under was recognised and action was taken to improve their conditions and lessen their workloads.” 

I suppose the best part of seeing the NHS drama unfold is when a Scottish Government spokesperson said: 

“We are immensely grateful for the incredible efforts of all of our NHS and Social Care staff over the course of the pandemic. We are demonstrating that gratitude through our actions, not just warm words. Our nurses and NHS staff are already the best paid in the UK. The 2021/22 pay uplift saw staff receive an average 4 per cent pay rise, the highest in the UK.” 

What the spokesperson fails to grasps or better still avoids talking about is the cuts to the service, staff shortages, the longer waiting times, the higher tax paid in Scotland, doing more work for the same pay. Could imagine having to do the work of two people but only getting the same money as for one? Can you imagine being constantly under pressure because you think you are effectively being left to fend for yourself? Just as patients need the human touch as part of their treatment to feel safe, why would anyone not think the same concern is needed for those dispensing out the treatment? The spokesperson added:

“We also have a range of resources including the National Wellbeing Hub, a 24/7 national well-being helpline, confidential mental health treatment through the workforce specialist service and funding for additional local psychological support.” 

This last part by the SNP Government spokesperson really sums up the SNP attitude, we will drive you to breaking point, but we will make available services as "coping strategies". My brother is a joiner, he makes good money when working, so to pull a leaf out of his book, this is his view on work. If he is working for a clown, his view is pretty straight forward, it is to leave clowns in the shit, and walk off. He has pretty solid un-flexible views on what he will and won't do. If he doesn't get want he wants, in terms of pay, he is off, if he doesn't like the management, he is off, if he doesn't like conditions, he is off. If more people in the NHS were like my brother, then the politicians would sit up and take notice, because for years the SNP have been systematically abusing the goodwill of the NHS staff. If the exodus does happen, you cannot blame the staff, they deserve a happy work/ home life balance. Why stick around when better job opportunities present themselves, why be loyal to people who aren't loyal to you? In politics, people look for the next big thing to campaign on, although the health service has been around since 5 July 1948. The real treasure of the NHS isn't the buildings, it is the people, never forget that, it is their skill which can save your life, give you quality of life. The SNP has broken the social contract with the workers, and it is time they realised that the service is heading for imploding.   

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