image shows: Release of another item from the British United Republican Party Manifesto

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BURP Manifesto Item 7

Target:  Improving patient care by reducing the anxiety of key staff in NHS hospitals.

Affected Group:  All close to patient staff in the NHS.

Proposal:  To implement urgent action, not a review, not a resolution, not a meeting or a five year programme, but action to improve the lot of those who deliver care in the NHS.  This must include an immediate increase in salary for nurses, doctors, domestic and maintenance staff, with a built in programme of increment to keep them ahead of inflation, out of debt and free from financial worry to let them focus on the job in hand unfettered.

Additionally, the cost of attending the place of work must be addressed immediately.  By setting aside free parking areas in hospital car parks for staff, access controlled by transponders to prevent queueing, a major  burden of cost can be removed from the staff.  To encourage greener transportation, free travel passes must be issued to encourage all staff members to leave the car at home, which would also have an impact on car park congestions.

Catering for staff must be addressed too.  By removing the stranglehold of outside suppliers from this equation, a great benefit can be offered to staff.  By re-implementing staff dining areas, operated by NHS employees for NHS employees, costs can be managed in order to offer affordable at-work dining for all concerned.  Varying levels of discount can be applied to staff depending on their salary grade and ability to pay.  We propose to start off with a base cost for all items and by the use of swipe cards, bill monthly for use with the following discounts applied:
    Nurses, domestic staff:                            100%
    Junior doctors, housemen                          70%
    Consultants, surgeons, anaeshtetists:         50%
Hospital middle management will not qualify for use of the staff restaurant. 

How will this be paid for?  Always a good question.  By making all middle management staff redundant, creating new multi-faceted roles to cust waste by 50%, then allowing redundant management staff to re-apply for the new, combined roles.  By this expedient and capping the salary scale for senior managers to £150,000pa, we envisage a saving of £2Bn per annum.  That would more than pay for the upgrades for functional staff within the service.

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