{"id":47667,"date":"2020-06-01T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=47667"},"modified":"2020-06-03T16:30:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T15:30:50","slug":"louis-lederman-nhs-workers-need-protecting-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/06\/01\/louis-lederman-nhs-workers-need-protecting-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Lederman: NHS workers need protecting too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once this pandemic is over, we should thank NHS staff in real terms, argues Louis Lederman<\/p>\n

\"\"As a third year medical student, I am proudly hoping to be part of the future workforce of the NHS. On 20 May, <\/span>the prime minister reported that 312<\/span><\/a> of the then 36 042 people who\u2019d died from covid-19 were NHS and social care staff.<\/span> Sadly, that number will continue to rise as time goes on and statistics are published. <\/span>Each of these deaths is a solemn reminder that our \u201cessential\u201d workers could more appropriately be called \u201csacrificial.\u201d Their reward? A government approved clap on a Thursday night and \u00a360 000 for their families if the worst does happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m a huge fan of the clap for our carers. It\u2019s beautiful to witness the unity shown within a nation that just a few months ago was fragmented and locked in political argument. To see people brought together by the most desperate circumstances is amazing, even more so because only a few months ago it was unimaginable. That said, it is a paltry response from a government that has underpaid healthcare staff, underfunded the services they work for, and failed to protect them with the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The irony in the government\u2019s rhetoric is glaring: today\u2019s \u201cheroes\u201d were yesterday\u2019s villains as the government\u2019s \u201cbattle against the invisible enemy\u201d was, in 2016, a \u201cbattle against the junior doctors.\u201d The same doctors, who former health secretary Jeremy Hunt proudly defeated, are now doing all that they can to save as many people as possible during this pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time of the 2016 junior doctors\u2019 strike the government, and some of the media, did everything they could to turn the public against our nation\u2019s carers. Doctors were branded militant, greedy, reckless, bullies. One <\/span>columnist went so far as to write<\/span><\/a>: \u201cThe young medics want the worst <\/span>[for patients]<\/span>. I hate them. My solution? We should fire all the young doctors who voted for a strike . . . Forget Hippocratic, it\u2019s hypocritic oath. They don\u2019t give a stuff about the sick.\u201d That opinion hasn\u2019t aged well at all. Now, more than ever, the government and media should realise the failings of our past. If not now, when?<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the suggestion that NHS staff should be awarded with a medal, how about a fair pay package instead? In countries such as Australia, doctors receive tax breaks on everything from rent or mortgage payments to restaurant meals. Other companies in the UK offer employees a range of benefits, including free meals (Intel), travel allowances (AirBnB), birthdays off (KPMG), and unlimited holiday days (Netflix). Meanwhile, doctors in the UK have to pay for hospital parking, overpriced hospital food, and<\/span> accept the toll on their social life and relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, for doctors, personal rewards come in making a difference to patients’ lives\u2014that is true now more than ever. The ability to save a life is the greatest privilege of any healthcare job. However, once this pandemic is over, we should thank NHS staff in real terms, not by medals, not by claps, but rather by normalising their pay to fair levels, increasing holiday days, and for a start, at the very least, giving them free hospital parking.<\/span><\/p>\n

T<\/span>he government\u2019s early mantra during lockdown entreated the public to \u201cstay at home, protect the NHS, save lives.\u201d <\/span>Our society creates labels all too easily\u2014\u201cessential workers,\u201d \u201cfrontline workers,\u201d \u201cour NHS,\u201d\u2014yet they risk making us\u00a0 dehumanise the people these labels encompass. Yes, the NHS is our national institution, so it\u2019s easy to forget that behind the letters NHS are roughly 1.5 million faces, each with a life and personal responsibilities, be that as parents, children, or spouses. The government must save those lives too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Protecting the NHS has been, rightfully, at the forefront of our minds . . . but what about protecting the people that are dying while working for it? These people are now seeing the beginning of what will be years of covid-19 induced pressure on the health system. After the virus has passed, people will not stop needing them. Next will come the many people who need sociopsychological support. Cases of depression, substance abuse, and suicide are predicted to rise as part of the fallout. And who will be there to act as their safety net? The people of the NHS, our careers, the people who need protecting too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Louis Lederman <\/i><\/b>is a third year medical student at Barts and the London Medical School.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Competing interests:<\/strong> I have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following interests: none.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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