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Additional leave for NHS staff to support Territorial Army
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on 04/12/2009
by Robert
It has been reported that a local NHS Trust allows staff members in the Territorial Army to take additional unpaid leave and one week paid leave to attend annual training camps.
With Hospitals generally suffering from a shortage of Nurses, is it right that the NHS should be subsidising the Army in this way?
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on 08/12/2009
by Jock McLees
That's an interesting question. Although not a topic specifically relevant to the Portsmouth LINk (Southamptom and/or Hampshire would cover it), I would just say that the medical services of our armed forces both take from and give to the NHS a vast amount in training, clinical services to NHS patients and experience. Without the military personnel who work in QAH, the hospital would be even harder pressed to fulfil its NHS tasks than usual. The Trust tells us that it has the largest number of armed forces personnel working with them of any Acute Trust in England and Wales. I believe that the MoD and the DoH have contractual arrangements to deal with these arrangements. All I'm trying to indicate is that the arrangement reported in the News may not be as straight-forward or as one-sided as it seems.
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on 09/12/2009
by Robert
Thanks Jock....point well made and taken!
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on 09/12/2009
by Jock McLees
As you have an interest in these matters, have you considered becoming involved with a LINk, either Hampshire, Southampton or Portsmouth?
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