I think our nhs staff are absolute hero's. I hate they way they are treated by the gov and managers alike.

I know we've had our differences over various matters but these are trivial and they can be put aside at times like this.

No idea what point Lickylucky was tryng to make, or at who directed - but if an attempt at an advert follows he or she will be outa here.

Here's a point - the lack of preparation for and implementation of testing is scandalous. The phrase 'lions led by donkeys' comes to mind - or, more and more in my experience of today's NHS, jennies.

Its like that in all government and local government sectors. People are brought in at a top level with know real knowledge of the operation they're in charge off. This leads to bad decisions and cost cutting measures. You can't run a service on the bare minimum then expect it to cope in an emergency.

We've had a manager brought in who wanted to cut numbers and cost but now due to this crises the staff aren't there to deal with the work loads as so many have gone off sick that the skeleton crew there was before is down to 40% due to this Corona virus and its costing them a fortune in overtime. On a normal week without any overtime the staff costs are £200000 with overtime its something like £400000 give or take a few thousand a week. Yet if we didn't lose so many staff we would of been able to cope without the need and dedication of staff doing 11 hour days and working up to 7 days a week.

We've had a manager brought in who wanted to cut numbers and cost but now due to this crises the staff aren't there to deal with the work loads as so many have gone off sick that the skeleton crew there was before is down to 40% due to this Corona virus and its costing them a fortune in overtime. On a normal week without any overtime the staff costs are £200000 with overtime its something like £400000 give or take a few thousand a week. Yet if we didn't lose so many staff we would of been able to cope without the need and dedication of staff doing 11 hour days and working up to 7 days a week.

Yet in normal circumstances you would be massively over paying and wasting. You can't keep staff on when not needed just in case there is something like this happening...something which has not happened in a 100 years.

Theirs always work to be done when we had enough staff more work was done there were never idle hands work loads were far more manageable but withless staff the work loads has been unmanageable for some time resulting in overtime being paid to complete plus less chance of industrial action happening which this manager if facing along with this crisis its created the perfect storm because if we remove our labour now site heads would roll.