andyph1711

Hello to all fellow collegues. As an experienced nurse, within the NHS (Accident and Emergency) with reguards to terms and conditions of employment, the NHS Pension is important to me, and I am shore to you all. After many years of loyal employment within the NHS, we should, as all of us in the uk, be entitled to a good standard of living in retirement. However some of the proposed changes to the pension, including extending the age of retirement, and changing pensions to a percentage of average salary, rather then a percentage of end salary, shorely will only be of detriment to us all. What are the benefits to the NHS workforce who are paying into the NHS Pension?. As quoted in a recent BBC Documentary (By the regulators of Public service pensions) on the proposed changes to NHS pensions " these changes are being proposed because the government is unable to provide such pensions because "We are living longer, and so costing the government more then it can support in pensions on retirement". With at present our contributions to the NHS pension scheme, as with the state pension, paying for those who have already retired, rather then being invested for our futures, which at present is questionable with reguards to pensions. So what can we do about this, will we sit back and take it, like much of the policy which is pasted with little questioning from the nursing front, or shall we fight for our futures. I hope the Nursing unions dont back down on this important issue, and I hope when the time comes to fight, all those Nurses join with me in the uk, at what ever the cost and fight for their futures, the futures of future nurses and the futures of our patients, who will once again suffer through even further reduced nursing numbers in the uk, as a direct result of any further reduction in the terms and conditions of NHS nursing / health care employment. Please vote for no change in current pension arangements, when the time comes through your union, and in the streets if needs be. Take care all of you, please post your views on this topic.