| With news this week of widespread
dissatisfaction amongst health service workers in Scotland, the Scottish Executive
launched a new campaign to address the medical skill shortage. With many
teachers from England flocking north to take advantage of the McCrone wages deal, the
Executive produced plans to take advantage of the influx.
Cross bordering educationalists will be directed to the nearest hospital and
told they're to play a new game called doctors and nurses. Suitably attired, our bemused
English cousins will be directed to walk around the medical facilities looking like they
know what they're doing.
"It’s a fact" an Executive spokesstatement told the JT, "that
flexible working is absolutely vital to deliver services, altho' cynics might say that
having a Home Economics teacher from Wolverhampton impersonate a neurosurgeon is
stretching the point a bit. |
But this initiative will provide
patients with much needed assurance, right up to the point where they arrest and the
attending 'medics' threaten them with detention for play acting…" This
novel approach to dealing with oversupply in one employment sector by matching against
unmet demand in another has precedent.
Professor Beaker of Strathclyde's Economics Department
took time out from drawing important looking diagrams on the board to tell the JT,
"It's not that unusual for workers from one occupational group to impersonate another
grouping. Look at Scotland's football team: diddies kidding on they can play the fucking
game…" |
