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Nurses ask for more help with petrol costs.

The RCN are asking the chancellor for an increase in petrol allowance


I gather it hasn't be raised in quite some time. As I'm not sure what the current rates are, can someone please enlighten me?

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I thought that those who use petrol as part of their jobs were able to claim it back as expences anyway. It's the poor so and so's who have to travel to work because there is no public service available who are really missing out.

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Re: Nurses ask for more help with petrol costs.

You have a point Uber but mileage allowances have not at all kept up with fuel increases!
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So even though you can claim, you aren't getting back the actual cost of the fuel. This means that nurses are paying their own money for work journeys.

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I'd question if you are actually out of pocket. As someone who has had a lease cra through a trust and also used my own car as a regular car user then I'd really question if you are using your own car if you are out of pocket.

If you need your car for work then yes you do have to have business insurance, but it doesn't work out that much more expensive than for 'social domestic and getting to work use'.
The per mile payment depends on cc of car
up to 1000cc it's 27p a mile 1000cc -1500cc it's 33.5p a mile and I think it's 43p a mile on 1600cc- 2litre.
Plus a regular car users payment annually of £508,£626 and £760 respectively on engine size.
Even in traffic and stop starting my car does about 27- 35 miles to the gallon so I still think it works out reasonably.


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Re: Nurses ask for more help with petrol costs.

Happybunny, your 33.5p a mile is for private cars not lease cars. If your engine is less than 1400cc, then 11p a mile is fairly standard for lease cars.

Assuming your car does between 7 and 10 miles per litre (roughly 30 to 40 miles per gallon), then that means your employer is buying your fuel at between 77p and £1.10 per litre.

If you are getting better mileage than 10 miles per litre then you are probably breaking even (or even making a small surplus) but if you are nearer the 7 miles a litre then you are are not getting reimbursed enough.

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Re: Nurses ask for more help with petrol costs.

i think the fact that it hasn't been increased for several years is the issue. It doesn't truly reflect wear and tear etc.

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So even though you can claim, you aren't getting back the actual cost of the fuel. This means that nurses are paying their own money for work journeys.

Oh how outrageous is that! I mean, nobody else pays for their own travel do they? Nobody!

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And I thought I was done and yet...

What I mean is, what about the woman who comes and works in the hospital kitchen, day after day, churning out meals for staff and patients? She's much less well paid than your average staff nurse, but who's going to pay her bus fare? And the cleaner, and the porter and the lab technician - all on pitiful pay compared with a band 6 nurse and yet all having to pay their own transport costs.

Oh yes, I know we're talking about community nurses and their petrol allowance and maybe I'm off topic here, but I do get a bit fed up of nurses whinging on about how hard done by they are when there are thousands of NHS ancillary workers in far worse positions.

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To me, this is the principal about journeys that have to be undertaken over and above getting to and from work. Porters, lab staff (who could be anywhere between band 4 and 8b so not all on a pittance!)etc are less likely to have to travel off site once they are at work.
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