Firstly I have been reading your excellent Blog for a while now but never felt moved to comment. I am very sorry but you appear to mistake the governement and policy makers who control the organisation you work for as people who give a shit about their workforce. You should have learn't long ago that the only reason the NHS functions at all is because of the goodwill of the staff, overstaying shifts, extra shifts at short notice, going the extra mile to make a decrepit system work at all. Oh, and don't expect to be paid your worth. They know they have you every way, why do managers get car allowances etc...and a 1/60th pension and clinicians get nothing and a 1/80th pension ? Do managers work harder and produce the results therefore being owed a higher return ???? Sorry, feeling a bit bitter. All my respect for going in day after day and grinding it out. Ex