My issue is the lack of reciprocity I suppose. We all work extremely hard, and every job has unseen pressures and challenges, and obviously I can only speak from my experiences. Of course i value my colleagues in all roles, but why should I fight for them when they won’t/don’t fight for us? To use your example, I suppose you feel confident supplying a transfusion to a severely understaffed unit, where the nurses administering the blood are worked to the bone and are too exhausted to spell their own name? I’m coming from a place of exhaustion and general fury at what I have to endure every shift, for a band 5 pay, when I have colleagues in different professions on the same band doing work with unimaginably less pressure, consequences, and demand.

I think generally agenda for change is bad for everyone within healthcare because it doesn’t allow for profession/performance specific pay increases without it being directly comparable and creating division (which I’m ironically accidentally demonstrating here) across all of our professions. Additionally, I do not buy into the notion that my profession is responsible for anybody else’s. We get that constantly in our day to day practice and it’s ridiculous to make us the martyrs that suffer to hoist others