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The NHS is laying people off, really? Shit, that's harsh.

In the long run you've got demographics on your side, the UK population is aging so you're in a profession where demand will increase. That probably doesn't help when you're looking at the end of a contract though.

Maybe I read the wrong parts of the press but it sounds like the public sector is not understaffed overall, it's just that too much money goes on useless projects like the police force hiring media relations experts or the NHS hiring multiple layers of bureaucrats.
(TheCircleIsNowComplete is longing for the endless immensity of the sea, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 21:04, 1 reply)

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But think about how the press report on your industry or profession - be it science, technologies, whatever; on the whole, the mainstream press takes a very uneducated, sensationalist stance on just about everything.

Having worked in nine NHS teams across six trusts over the past nine years (equivalent to a residency position), every one of my managers has been hugely over-worked and under-resourced. In comparison to the 3 private hospitals I worked in, there is virtually no management presence at all.

It's true that at times we get frustrated about how resources are getting allocated, or about who is making financial decisions and how, but the press is so far off the mark it isn't funny.
(cherrynicola, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 11:50, closed)