{"id":206451,"date":"2020-04-29T06:25:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T06:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206451"},"modified":"2020-05-03T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T08:01:09","slug":"ae-assistant-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206451","title":{"rendered":"A&E Assistant Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

So much for us being NHS heroes’: Southmead Hospital workers in zero-hour contract ‘nightmare’<\/h1>\n

Conor Gogarty \u2013 Bristol Live April 28, 2020<\/h2>\n
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Britons take to the streets to applaud National Health Service workers for their efforts in another calculated PR stunt\/psy-op. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

A whistleblower at Southmead Hospital claims hundreds of its zero-hour contract staff are struggling to get any work.<\/span><\/p>\n

The A&E healthcare assistant says the hospital has cancelled the vast majority of shifts for staff in her role and many nurses, after scheduled surgeries were suspended and some wards closed due to coronavirus<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

She told Bristol Live<\/strong><\/span><\/a> she normally works full-time but is now struggling to get one shift a week \u2013 and has been told she is not eligible for furlough because of her zero-hour contract, though the Government’s website<\/strong><\/span><\/a> says any contract is eligible.<\/span><\/p>\n

The worker said: \u201cWhen I rang the staff bank office to ask how we\u2019re meant to support ourselves, they told me we could apply for Universal Credit.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo much for us being NHS<\/a><\/strong><\/span> heroes. The people clapping us across the country don\u2019t know what is happening.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel so unsupported by the hospital. I am constantly worried about how I am going to get work. It’s a nightmare.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShifts are just being cancelled with no warning. I believe we should be furloughed, but they are point-blank refusing to do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Hardly any patients’<\/h2>\n

She claims \u201ceasily\u201d more than 200 employees are in the same situation, including some nurses.<\/span><\/p>\n

It comes after Bristol City Council\u2019s new director of adult social care Hugh Evans said the city’s hospital bed occupancy was at an \u201call-time, unforeseeable low\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The whistleblower has worked at Southmead Hospital for five years on a zero-hour contract, usually earning around \u00a3400 a week after tax through three 12-hour shifts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cSo much for us being NHS heroes. The people clapping us across the country don\u2019t know what is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":205606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206454,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206451\/revisions\/206454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}