Urgent review on the mileage allowance provisions for Community Nursing Staff and Carers
Urgent review on the mileage allowance provisions for Community Nursing Staff and Carers
Why this petition matters
Community nurses are literally ‘paying to work’ due to record fuel prices
The average nurse or care worker is spending between £150 and £300 a month on fuel and only being reimbursed around half of this.
Petrol prices set a new record of 189.7p a litre, with diesel hitting a massive 197.7p a litre.
Community nurses and care workers are literally “paying to work” because of record fuel prices.
Those on NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) contracts can claim 56p per mile for the first 3,500 and just 35p per mile after this. With many community staff averaging more than 10,000 miles per year, most are being left significantly out of pocket.
Also a £60 per month ‘wear and tear’ payment to staff has also been cut.
A snap poll of community nurses undertaken by NursingNotes earlier this year revealed the average community nurse or care worker is spending between £150 and £300 a month on fuel and only being reimbursed around half of this.
We need the Government to do an urgent review on the mileage allowance provisions for Community Nursing staff and Community Carers.
The community nursing service – what’s sometimes known as district nursing – offers high quality nursing care to people in their own home or nursing home.
The types of people who benefit most from community nursing services are those who are living with long-term health conditions that prevent them from leaving their home, or those who are unable to leave their home for shorter periods of time – such as during recovery from a medical procedure. It is also a valuable service for people who are unable to attend surgery due to clinical risks, for example people whose immune system has been weakened following chemotherapy.
The Community Nursing Service provides:
• Comprehensive Holistic assessment
• Wound Management (Including Pressure ulcer
management /Leg ulcer management)
• Medication, assessment and support
• Continence Management
• Diabetes Management and treatment
• Palliative and End of Life Care
• Phlebotomy
• A range of diagnostic test for those on case load • Ear Care
• Health Promotion/Education
We are loosing staff because they can’t afford to pay for the fuel to do their job.
if the government don’t review this we are going to loose vital services.