Yesterday I was chatting
with a friend about the wrongs of the world, and was told that the
Health Secretary had been talking sense. At the risk of appearing
cynical it is something of a novelty for a politician to be doing
that, so last night during a tea break I looked up what he'd said.
Basically he's calling
for a 24/7
hospital service in which health care professionals are expected
to provide a round-the-clock service. My piss boiled at that. Doesn't
this chap realise that people in hospitals are already working every
hour God sends? Mind you I suppose that as a politician he's being
rather clever. The general public have no idea what goes on in
hospitals. If the Minister for Health declares that staff are going
to have to work round the clock and then (a few weeks later)
makes some big announcement about having implemented his plan no
one's going to be any the wiser that hospitals have actually been
working round the clock for years.
Interestingly a Twitter
campaign has been launched using the hashtag
#IminworkJeremy in which health care professionals post selfies
of themselves during the night shift to show the Health Secretary
that they actually are at work at night.
I did something simular a
few years ago just to prove I was working at night and found myself
subject to disciplinary action for doing so. I wonder if the
hashtagers will simularly get an arse-kicking. I must just squeal
them up...
I did my night shift, and
came home through rather heavy rain. As I drove I listened to the
church service on the radio. I gave it ten minutes then turned it
off. It was awful.
Once home I waved goodbye
to "er indoors TM" and "Furry
Face TM" who went out concealing (as
opposed to hunting) tupperware and I settled in front of the
telly to watch Peter Davison's Doctor Who having a fracas with
Daleks. I soon lost interest, it was dull.
I went to bed, slept like
a log, and after five hours again woke to the terrible clanging of
next door's piano playing.
Over a spot of tea I
watched another black and white episode of "Dad's Army"
that I'd not seen before, and now I'm off to work again. I quite like
the night shifts but days spent asleep are rather dull.
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