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Dec. 23rd, 2010 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squeefulfishI have to say, I did not see this one coming. The Department of Health have announced that student nurses and midwives will not be paid for their internship from the 2011 intake on. Those already on the courses will receive less than they were promised when they took the offers of the courses. When applying for these courses, it was on the understanding that come fourth year and internship, we'd receive 80% of the first point of the INMO pay scale, approx 17k for 9 months (plus unsocial hours premium payments where applicable.)
Now, if someone leaves a course and decides to do something else at college because the goalposts have shifted so significantly that they may not be able to afford to continue their studies, they'll have to pay full fees. As well as the 2 grand a year student registration charge. Or, they could continue in their studies, if they have a very understanding and financially supporting family. Because you need someone to back you financially when you're working a full time job, working nights, working weekends and not getting paid a penny for it.
Without my pay while on my internship I could not have afforded to do this course at all. I'm far from alone in that. I was able to borrow money to pay the registration fees and my bus fares on the understanding that once I was earning in fourth year I could pay it back.
To say that I'm angry is an understatement. This government have repeatedly shown that they have no respect for my profession. They've threatened to put me in jail for doing my job, they've not let me do the job I want to do and now they don't want to pay mine for working to save lives?
Fuck you, deputies, fuck you.
Now, if someone leaves a course and decides to do something else at college because the goalposts have shifted so significantly that they may not be able to afford to continue their studies, they'll have to pay full fees. As well as the 2 grand a year student registration charge. Or, they could continue in their studies, if they have a very understanding and financially supporting family. Because you need someone to back you financially when you're working a full time job, working nights, working weekends and not getting paid a penny for it.
Without my pay while on my internship I could not have afforded to do this course at all. I'm far from alone in that. I was able to borrow money to pay the registration fees and my bus fares on the understanding that once I was earning in fourth year I could pay it back.
To say that I'm angry is an understatement. This government have repeatedly shown that they have no respect for my profession. They've threatened to put me in jail for doing my job, they've not let me do the job I want to do and now they don't want to pay mine for working to save lives?
Fuck you, deputies, fuck you.
