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To: Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary
Equal rights for NHS staff
To pay NHS staff for holiday hours they are unable to take due to shortage of staff in their department and the need to cover shortages in other departments. Any other agency/government funding agencies are allowed to add their untaken holiday entitlement forward or be recompensed for the loss. NHS staff lose their holiday entitlements due to staff shortages in their department or are expected to cover shortages in other departments hence loss of holiday entitlements.
Why is this important?
The morale of the NHS staff is at a low ebb and hardly surprising considering how unfairly they are treat compared to other employments. Where else would they condone the loss of holiday entitlements without compensation/remuneration? In this day and age it is a scandal. Our NHS are losing staff and it's hardly surprising. We need to support them and stand up for the abominable disparity that exists between working conditions in the public and private sector. No one, in this day and age, would condone the loss of almost a full weeks holiday entitlement due to staff shortages. We need our NHS staff, this is only one, of many, injustices we need to rectify.
