liam doran on pat kenny today tried to tell us that reducing the working week of nurses from 39 to 35 hours a week wouldn't require thousands of new nurses just to keep total hours worked constant, tried to imply to kenny that such a notion was some ''health employers''* propaganda and if the health employers just sat down and agree to the ino demands reality will magically bend to so that when the 35000 ino nurses each work 4 hours less a week they will still manage to work the same amount of hours as now. (i may be paraphrasing in parts here)
actually it would take around 4000 extra nurses just to do stand still in terms of hours worked. more revealing is, when trying to justify his obviously absurd statements, he said that the extra work could be done by ''changes to the roster... to the role... to the way we work''. which brings an obvious question to mind, why hasn't this been done already? oops slight slip there liam, kinda implied that nurses are working inefficiently at the moment.
*liam is a good union spokesman all right, he gets round mentioning government by using health employers to put distance between his unions pay claim, 35 hour week and 10% rise in pay, and the fact that everyone else i.e taxpayers will have to pay it.
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