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Posted 26 March 2021
Free Microsoft Certified Azure exams for NHS Employees
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Seems to be for Azure related exams only. When paying for a Microsoft Certified: Azure exam through Microsoft Learn and Pearson, you can link your Microsoft Account to your NHS Email address on the exam discounts page. Once linked, you get a 100% discount voucher for ‘Department of Health’ employees automatically applied to transaction
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sorted byNHS workers are not just Dr's and Nurses, there is always a large support team behind the front line. A lot of NHS trusts are moving towards cloud storage so this could be very handy at saving already stretched trusts a few quid.
I do massively agree with them needing a big big pay rise though.
What isn’t lost is the nurses who have worked years to get to the top of their band and received no pay rise.
Angels of the NHS. It’s funny that is exactly what they are, as the cards of thank you from all family members pretty much say, even if that life can’t be saved.
As a husband of nurse, I see her leave with dred as there are only 9 staff on the shift when there should be 15.
12 hours days - but they don’t work every day do they. No you’re right, but the flips from nights to long days absolutely ruin her. 24 hours between these flips at times.
Does she complain she is on a low wage? No
Does she just get on with it? Yes
Is she fairly paid for exactly what her line of work entails. Absolutely not.
I’m paid the same for a stressful job that deals with finances, she daily saves lives and sees things I’d never want to see.
You’re welcome to your opinion, and everyone else is welcome to theirs.
Just to clarify, we both fully support pay rises and any money going firstly to people whose livelihoods have been destroyed over the past year, after all we can still pay our bills and feed our kids. But your ‘negative nurses picture’ is complete rubbish.
Have a good day.
I work in IT for an NHS Trust. We've been using Azure for several years now, so I beg to differ. The NHS hasn't got one big IT dept, y'know!
On a separate note, if you work for the NHS in Northern Ireland, this doesn't work as we don't have nhs.net email addresses.
I am an experienced RGN, about 6 years experience as a clinical leader / charge nurse and I do not make £34k. I'm sure that number is inflated by the number of incredibly inflated agency nurse wages that trusts are forced to pay to cover short falls in RGN numbers - because we simply aren't training enough nurses.
We are not angels we are degree educated professionals - just about everyone of my colleagues caught covid during the last year and we have carried on working.
I can't see why anyone would go into nursing at the moment.
I personally think cloud is overrated. It has some good use cases, sure, and is handy to have in a pandemic, but let's face it, it only exists as its a really good ongoing revenue stream for massive corporations. Once you're in, you're in forever.
Big up the HCAs out there!
So much nativity in one post. Maybe educate yourself before making such statements. Full cloud might not work but a hybrid solution might. Don’t completely write it off before doing some proper cost analysis.
If you want the current correct values:
healthcareers.nhs.uk/wor…tes
Average nurse is a band 5 FYI, band 6's are generally supervisory or specialist nurses, band 7's are again highly specialised or senior sisters. Many nurses never get past a band 5. I keep seeing this 34k figure floating around and I don't understand where this comes from but like someone mentioned perhaps its agency inflated or the higher central London wages. But also bare in mind that there are a very very large number of auxillery nurses/health care assistants that are paid band 2 or 3 and work very hard as well. Student nurses have also been very active during the outbreak and they get between and band 3/4 at my trust. So no they don't all get paid 34k.
Yea I’d like to thing somebody who’s been to uni for 3 years and in charge of peoples lives gets more money than somebody who is not working
Don’t think Microsoft do pay rises for the NHS but the tens of thousands of administrative staff may benefit...
The pension really isn’t great, the old pension scheme that has since changed is not comparable. Many people have been left jobless and it’s awful, that doesn’t mean the people who have worked tirelessly for the past year should suffer. Many who have been furloughed could have got a job in the NHS too if they wanted to help themselves and others
Massively overpriced, 5mil over 5 years for O365 v 800k on premise. Not NHS but still public sector. 4.2mil can be invested in other front line services.
All these free courses.... Have people gone mad.. They are just sales pitches with a free exam. They are everywhere. Has anyone watched the recorded course for 3 hours?. It's on YouTube.
On prem exchange is supported till 2028
And remember, the cloud is just someone else's computer.
Build your own resilient, efficient infrastructure and run services In house, keep jobs local, invest in local communities rather than sell out and follow the fashion.
Save the money for payrise!
There are already cases of larger corps coming back from the cloud.
It will be interesting to see what happens when these contracts end. In 10 years what the state of cloud computing will be.
But I agree with the above poster.
Does keyboard warrior pay well? Any decent perks? Asking for a friend.
Do you save lives in your job, out of interest?
People who save lives deserve to be paid handsomely, end of. I don't begrudge the fact that I don't earn as much, simply because I am fully aware the job I do isn't saving lives.
Yeah, you seem to have as much respect for the NHS as you do for women "luv".
You can book the exam now for a later date and re-schedule it multiple times for free, just need to do it more than a week out
The are good trusts and not-so-good trusts in all aspects, including IT. But that's the same in any industry.
Yeah the Trust I work for doesn't use cloud computing, our IT department is still stuck in the dark ages. we're only just starting to migrate to nhs.net accounts.
As an NHS IT Engineer myself this would be useful to me to have so it’s not useless
We've massively been pushed towards cloud during the pandemic. All NHS staff now have access to Teams and an E3 licence.
It's definately not overrated.
Management, scalability, security, uptime, licensing, etc are all better to name a few. What's better about on prem? ...and before you say cost..... Traditional on prem DCs are imo less cost effective than the likes of Azure. (edited)
Nobody wants a thank you or a clap, we aren't children. This current pay offer reduces the pay rise previously agreed by the government, which came on the back of about 10 years of either no pay rise of below interest pay rises.
I know a lot of people are a lot worse off and I am grateful that I can still support my family. But working frontline this year has been harrowing at times.
You are an ar*e. We are always told there are thousands of jobs available but people wont sink to doing some of them and rather be in benefits. I hope some of these private sector redundancies you talk about are getting training to go inyo nursing seeing as there is a massive shortfall and staffing crisis in the NHS. Or can they not hack it?
I said goodbye to tea breaks years ago. A lunch break or at least not being reprimanded for eating and drinking because you can't leave for a break. You're looking at top of payscale for band 5 starting band 5 is below 30k. If you want to bury your head in the sand fine. The attitude of why don't you leave if it's so bad is why so many do leave and why were so reliant on foreign workers. Maybe because people believe in the job they do and think fighting to make it a viable job and a rewarding one is better than just running off? But sure go ahead with that attitude. The number of younger staff I've seen leave to become sales reps is more than I've seen stick around past their 20s. The thing you're forgetting is that it's a job that requires professional training and membership fees. It requires constant training which you often have to pay for yourself, when compared to other jobs that demand a similar professional standard it's underpaid. I'm not a nurse, I'm a different profession. But what it does is use up good nurses till they quit or give up being good nurses. Most of the time pre covid it's always complaints about healthcare staff, at least you'd agree there's no reason to complain about the standard of care then.
OK, whatever makes you feel better about how you justify your need to try to rile people to make your evening.
Maybe start taxing the rich
If that fails, eat them.
Why don't we talk about the average salary of an NHS frontline worker? Notice why the government keeps bringing up the pay of the nurses but actual average pay of NHS workers? Because it's around £24,000 at average not £34,000.
We should instead have a furlough tax for those who took it and reduced benefits for those who have been laid off to encourage them to get a job. (edited)
I agree with the sentiments but having seen the NHS’ IT setup, they’re miles off cloud computing! Another case of the governments mismanagement and outsourcing contracts to their pals.
Still, voted hot
Fair enough, I was talking about experience from where I am.
I actually work for one of NHS’s IT outsourcing companies and actually we are driving a lot of their tech refreshes along with their move to the cloud, it’s certainly not miles off.
Hmm, the 12% pay rise turned out not to be 12% hence why the Chief Exec of the Royal College of Nursing quit because it was advertised as 12% but turned out not to be true. Frontline nurses now start on £24,000 (£21,000 prior to the ‘12%’), but the maximum for most frontline nurses is currently £30,000. The majority of nurses you come across in a hospital will be on this pay grade, band 5, many of which do not want additional managerial jobs so stay on the front line, staying on £30,000 for 20 years despite masses of knowledge and experience. The nhs pay banding is very easily accessible on google
Licensing? Does a gritter driver need Skype? No but they have to pay for it. So many trades that don't need these features that have to be paid for, for every employee in the organisation.
Scalability? Can you not scale on prem? What have we all been doing for 15 years?.
On prem dcs. You can fire a dc on an old pc running free esx 7. If you were cheap and had resilience across sites. Or run full Drs on infrastructure cheaper than azure.
Or you can pay azure for the transactions.
All depends on your business and infrastructure.
What happened when the Scottish schools went back in jan. That all use teams. Boom!. Teams went down. Chaos for two days Ms Could not cope. Scalability? Meanwhile all the on prem schools infrastructure ran as normal awaiting this scalability to arrive.
I'm sure it's "elasticity" they use in the course to describe the auto scalability.
Companies need to do the math. Not just on prem v azure, all the cloud companies. Right down to the electricity and cooling. And tools for this are readibly available.
But for a small company with 10 employees fair enough. Azure would be cheaper.
OK let's not be pedantic, it's obviously a per case basis so no Azure would not be a great fit for everyone (agree that data transactions costs are bs and impossible to calculate though I'm assuming you're offsetting that against costs associated with on prem racking, HA hardware, power management and so forth).
I don't think a single teams outage is a fair assessment of azure availability as a whole.
So you prefer ..... on prem HW upgrades, power mismanagement, networking downtime, power outages, account managers and their bs and so forth vs clicking a few buttons in a Web portal? I know what I prefer. I don't miss going to a DC and arguing about trying to get some hardware into our own rack. Swings and round abouts, I'm more efficient and time isn't wasted doing crap like that. I work better and harder on those areas that need attention thanks to the rise of the cloud.
I'm a networking guy so perhaps my viewpoint is different but your argument seems to be related to cost. Side by side if cost were equal or near, which in many cases it can be, I don't see why you'd be a fan of on prem
Two wrongs don't make a right. It's all about political idealogical tomfoolery. Divide and conquer. The tories are once again doing a sterling job of it.
I for one would prefer a society where everyone has a decent living wage, both public and private sector workers.
By the way I'm a public sector worker
I have lots of family and friends who work in the private sector. The government have decided that my pay will be frozen again due to covid, I caught covid doing my job.
You just said there are no other jobs due to the massive Covid redundancies in the private sector