we need a total overhaul of workforce planning, because there is a failure in the system. it takes seven years to train a doctor, three years to train a nurse, and it s never enough of a priority for the department of health and social care and the treasury when it comes to spending reviews, to spend this money on doctors and nurses that you re not going to see for many years hence. health unions have warned excessive workloads across the nhs and social care risk staff leaving their profession early. if that happens, it would be catastrophic for our health service, at a time when we are facing the biggest backlog of care we ve ever known. while unions back calls to boost recruitment, they want more to be done in the short term to tackle staff burn out something health leaders say is being addressed. we recognise the fact that people are going to feel tired, they are going to feel in a state of real exhaustion, so the health
DWP staff ‘angry’ over pandemic safety at jobcentres
Union says strike action could follow “reckless” increase of face-to-face interviews
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13 Apr 2021
The PCS trade union has blasted ministers as “reckless” for stepping up face-to-face services for benefit claimants at jobcentres and warned that strike action could result from staff anger over the move.
PCS said the decision to resume pre-lockdown opening hours at jobcentres this week would increase the likelihood of avoidable Covid-19 infections among staff and was unnecessary because services were successfully being delivered by staff working from home.
The union, which last week staged a four-day strike at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency over Covid safety fears, said stepping up face-to-face services at jobcentres was at odds with government advice that civil servants should continue to work from home if they could.
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