One nurse discussed how her clinic used cash incentives to get women in to have abortions:
‘Everything is geared to getting as many people in for terminations as possible. When I started in July 2004, the branch was performing between 20 and 30 surgical abortions a day. But we were told Essex was doing 50 a day and that we were under-performing. So they called a meeting last November at which we were told our bonuses were being withheld until we caught up.
‘We had two wards upstairs and it was like a car production plant.
When I started, people would be given a few hours to recover, but by the end they were waking them up within half an hour and getting them out.
‘The bonuses acted as a sales incentive, as if you were working on a perfume counter in a department store. The more people you got booked in for terminations, the better your bonus would be.”
The director of the clinic, when interviewed, admitted that clinic employees received “performance-related awards” and were regularly told to increase their “efficiency and capacity’ if they wanted to receive the full amount.
“Dennis Rice, Rachel Ellis “Abortion Nurses ‘Are Paid Incentive Bonuses’; Marie Stopes Clinics Stand Accused of Offering Commercial-Style ‘Perfomance Cash’ to Staff.” The Mail on Sunday, September 4, 20052005
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