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The motto is: ‘Provide the staff or pay the price’
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From Viv McKay.
AFTER returning to Jersey, having attending college for two years to become a qualified medical secretary, I am presently signed off with work-related stress.
I sought advice from JACS and was told that I could be given notice, for any reason, at any time during my six-month probationary period.
The stress is work-related because there are insufficient staff to cover the volume of work, and because I am stressed I have been referred to my employers, who may say that the job is too stressful and in turn give me my notice. This is so unfair.
Throughout my convalescent period I have worried that it may happen, even though I am an excellent employee.
If employees were replaced after they left, existing staff might be able to cope with an ever-increasing workload due to patients not having primary care (high cost of visiting GPs) and leading to secondary care which costs the States a fortune. So the motto must be: ‘Provide the staff or pay the price.’
If the States intend to put pressure on everyone, they are going back in time. Technology is advancing rapidly, but due to budgetary constraints, the States are still ‘cooking on gas’, forgetting about the poor innocent patient or resident. This has to stop, because the working-class people, who are the majority, are being forced to leave the Island while the aristocrats take over.
Rents should be comparable with income, otherwise people will have to rely on Income Support. Rents should be decreased if wages are not being increased, in order for people to pay all taxes, utilities and doctors’ bills. The more stress, the more drug-related illnesses, hence the more money the States pay out.
People are living together, when they would normally live apart, because of the expense involved in living alone, and sharing can lead to ‘domestics’, which in turn leads to alcoholism, which leads to a GP or hospital visit. If these problems were addressed, people would be healthier and we would not need so many GPs.
203 Spectrum,
Gloucester Street,
St Helier.
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