The NHS Reality

We are just wanting to allow you all to understand the reality of the nursing situation here in the UK.

The NHS stands for National Health Services. This is the governing body that runs the public health care system here in Britian. The Britsh Health care system is very similar to the system we have in Canada (ie. publicly funded with not enough money to cover costs).

Well the reality is that in the first few months after we arrived in England the NHS fell into crisis. There were extreme job freezes and a large number of job cuts happening because of the massive over budgets in many of the hospital in the UK.

Here are some on the news articles title at that time:

NHS job cuts 'set to quadruple' - BBC

Thousands more Jobs may go as crisis hits NHS Direct - Daily Telegraph

Cuts are symptom of an NHS in crisis - Socialist Worker Online

NHS job losses 'could reach 24,000' - Netdoctor.co.uk

NHS remedies dominate papers - BBC

So that gives you a sense of how difficult it could be for Janelle. It is not an easy time to be trying to break into the nursing work force.

Now that Janelle has finally finished all of her bureaucratic requirements with excellence, she is diligently seeking employment where the option are presently very limited.

So we are asking you to pray!
Pray that Janelle would get the right job.
Pray that Janelle would get a job as quickly as possible.

We did not expect Janelle's qualification to take as long to go through as they did and did not budget for this long of a break, as Janelle's income is a good protion of our overall support.

So if you have been considering or thinking of joining us financial on this journey and becoming a partner in that way, now would be a wonderful time.

We would greatly appreciate your support and help at this time in our wonderful journey.

We are also very grateful and thankful for all those who have been supporting us so faithfully.

It has been great pleasure to be here serving and learning.

Many Blessings,

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