Re: On call - can you be made to do it?

nickyc — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:58:52 GMT

I would definately get in touch with Citzens advice and find out from a legal point of view where you all stand, but also remember there is safety in numbers, so make sure the nursing team sticks together. I would get in touch with a few nurses in local practices and find out what they do in regards to rota and OOH. You will probably find that most practices now don't do their own OOH, and qualified RVN's are hard to come by, and your boss may need to be reminded of this.... but I would try and sit down and find out exactly what they want, and what they would be offering in return ie: with pay or time off to compensate you all, and see if you can compromise and find a solution thats works for both the nurses and practice. So many practices now are beginning to realise (slowly) that RVN's are highly skilled and sort after, and so practices are starting to offer much better packages in order to hold onto to there nurses. For me personnelly I left a practice that was demanding more and more from its nurses with regards to hours, weekends, late checks and overnight care, and really wasn't giving anything back to the nurses except grief, and refused to see that in order for the the nurses to do the best possble job they needed to be happy and not overworked, overtired etc so I left and found somewhere that is the complete opposite.. and now said practice has lost a very++ large portion of its nursing team...

Re: On call - can you be made to do it?

Sal the 1st — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:09:59 GMT

contact your CAB for advice - you may find that now you will be getting a contract