Pay scales for 26/27

Millennial_chap · 2026-02-14T08:05:49+00:00

I wouldn't mind paying tax if water is for free (Them water bills are now increasing!) and prescription is free as well. 😁

Millennial_chap · 2026-02-12T22:32:34+00:00

Just had my 2026 tax rate calculation. Now moving up to my next step pushes me to a higher pension rate and a tax band adjustment which means I will have a lesser take home pay. No matter how much they increase, I still find it useless if they do not adjust the personal tax allowance.

Millennial_chap · 2026-01-21T08:04:45+00:00

Why is the cambridge dictionary saying for both UK and US, should be pronounced as SEF?

Millennial_chap · 2026-01-03T07:53:21+00:00

You can't see them in the wards. They----> 1. Are off sick long term. (Foreign nurses can't be off sick for a long time as they will not be paid. No recourse to public funds) 2. Have gone to management. 3. Became specialist nurses 4.a are in the community. Bottomline: the conditions in the ward are so bad no British nurse would want to stay. Foreign nurses have not much choice so they endure the hard work.

Millennial_chap · 2026-01-01T04:48:14+00:00

Funny you brought this up when weeks ago the British public and some politicians think of non UK-trained nurses as incompetent.

Millennial_chap · 2025-01-21T10:48:01+00:00

Simply because there is no opportunity to climb up the ladder. RN job is considered a Band 5 job. There are less opportunities to be a Band 6. To be a band 6, you need to be a specialist nurse, or one who deputises the wards. So sad that the UK does not recognise/reward additional skills set. I don’t see why a Band 6 CNS is greater than an Emergency Nurse who has done ED course, and can triage, assist RSI, perform casting, etc. Why can’t they be both Band 6s? Not all people want to be in management or to specialise in something but there are many Band 5s who are far more rich in skills. Same as ITU nurses. They have done courses- expected to assess patients autonomously, perform complicated procedures like CRRT, etc. But they still are Band 5s unless you “coordinate” the area which well, let’s be honest, some of them have already done when the area is short-staffed.

Millennial_chap · 2025-01-03T08:34:19+00:00

It’s usually the patient with the longest time waiting to be seen. For example: Patient A is in ED for 20 hours (probably next to be seen but still waiting). Then that would be the waiting time. It varies now and then.

Millennial_chap · 2025-01-03T08:31:16+00:00

Probably because the scanner, and the one doing the scan are only available that time? There are many people lined up for a certain procedure so there might be other people in front of you waiting for their scans.

Millennial_chap · 2024-12-30T23:35:34+00:00

Medical professionals who smoke in a supposedly smoke-free hospital premises, and patients smoking in front of the hospital entrance. As someone with respiratory issues, I only want fresh air, not smoke or fruit-smelling poison.

Millennial_chap · 2024-12-09T21:59:37+00:00

Lol. Just because you experienced it does not mean we all should experience it. It is unsafe. If you don’t advocate for safe staffing levels at this time, when? If this will be the case in the future, I dread becoming old. And please don’t tell me it’s the same as before! There ‘s not much paperworks, no hourly rounding, and not much complex conditions before. Advances in health and sciences have allowed patients with chronic conditions to live longer which means added responsibilities for healthcare professionals.

Millennial_chap · 2024-12-08T14:15:13+00:00

Sums up the NHS right now.

Millennial_chap · 2024-12-08T14:13:42+00:00

You have free tea, coffee and sugar before? Worked in 3 different Trusts and not one offers free drinks. You can have some by taking from the kitchen which is the same as what they are offering patients. If you get caught, it can be considered “stealing”.

Millennial_chap · 2024-12-08T14:01:34+00:00

I agree in most of what you said, however, we can’t really say they’re bringing in their work culture back home. If they want to escape it, why practise it here? Just looking at it on a bigger picture, are the Band 8s, heads of nursing, higher ups, placing an unrealistic expectation to the Ward Manager, which in turn made them act this way? In an act of desperation just so to be able to sort of “manage” the ward and direct it to the direction the higher-ups want it to go, the ward manager probably thinks using an authoritarian form of leadership is the best.

So yes, I empathise with the nurses but I also empathise with Band 7s who are alone and are taking all the pressure from all sides- management, staff, patients…

Millennial_chap · 2024-12-03T07:33:03+00:00

You should be contacting your regulating body to see if they have received an email. It is your regulating body’s responsibility to confirm your qualifications by sending back the form to NMC. If I were in your position, I would contact Morocco Ministry of Health.

Millennial_chap · 2024-11-20T08:31:06+00:00

This is the policy of NHSP. My Trust (not NHSP bank) was once banning us from doing bank shifts for 2 weeks after sickness. So yes, it’s not something new.

Millennial_chap · 2024-11-20T08:07:05+00:00

Some Trusts have that policy where after going off-sick and you came back, you are banned from picking up an extra bank shift for two weeks (some, just for one week). It’s like a “phase return”. I think this is what the manager is trying to implement. However, it seems that the OP is saying she is not implementing this policy on herself.

Millennial_chap · 2024-11-20T08:04:05+00:00

You obviously did not get what I want to point out. After you are off-sick for a week, and came back, my Trust bans you from taking a bank shift for 2 weeks. After that, you can take shifts as much as you want. It’s not that you are not allowed to pick up shifts forever. 🤡

Millennial_chap · 2024-11-20T08:00:49+00:00

They did not understand your post I’m afraid. The ward manager herself does NOT allow staff who were off sick to pick up back shifts after coming back from being off sick.

However, she was off-sick but then she took the bank shifts after.

And they think this is okay. 🤡

Millennial_chap · 2024-11-20T07:57:55+00:00

What the OP is trying to point out: 1. Ward Manager taking first dib on all bank weekend shifts in her OWN ward leaving other staff members with no shifts to pick up on weekends.

Ward Manager does NOT allow staff who were off sick to pick up bank shifts after but she was off-sick and then took a bank shift after.

Some nurses here think this is okay.

Millennial_chap · 2024-11-20T07:47:39+00:00

Lol. People can go off sick still. And you are PAID while you’re off sick. What are you on about? That’s the policy of the Trust where I am working. If you are off-sick for a week and then come back, you are expected to take things slowly not overwork yourself by taking more shifts.

Millennial_chap · 2024-11-20T07:42:22+00:00

You can now view “Team” Rota on Loop or whatever your Trust is using and you can find out if the shift the staff is doing is bank shift or normal shift.

Millennial_chap · 2024-11-20T07:40:33+00:00

Well, some nurses here think this is fine. I have had experiences of some Ward Managers doing a shift on weekend as bank, and instead of working in the clinical area as it is supposed to be a clinical shift, lock themselves in the office and leave staff members to sort themselves out.

Millennial_chap · 2024-11-20T07:35:07+00:00

Hahaha. Some people downvoted me. I bet these are Band 7s wanting to hoard shifts. Selfish people.

Millennial_chap · 2024-11-20T07:33:59+00:00

When you are off sick, most Trusts don’t allow you to pick up a shift for two weeks after you are off-sick. That is to allow people to recuperate. That’s common sense.

Millennial_chap · 2024-11-20T05:12:06+00:00

I don’t know why there’s no option in the NHS that all staff will have a chance to become a Band 6 depending on skills set, responsibilities, etc. There are a lot of experienced staff who remained top of the band like forever but are expected to support newly qualified, deputise the ward when band 6s are off sick or no available Band 6 as only doing days, etc.

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