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Junior doctors’ leader on holiday during worst NHS strike begs forgiveness.
daniel"The workforce crisis is also a retention crisis. More doctors are seeking alternative employment, going overseas, having a break from medicine, or taking early retirement" #NHS #JuniorDoctorStrikes
The NHS workforce crisis is a retention crisis
Pay cuts, worsening conditions, and an inability to provide high quality care all threaten the retention of doctors, writes Malinga Ratwatte The NHS is in the grip of chronic workforce shortages. This fact is plain to see for people working in the service and makes the daily working lives of staff increasingly difficult. Data from NHS England show that more than 9000 medical posts in secondary care were vacant in September 2022.1 In primary care, England has lost the equivalent of around 2000 fully qualified full time GPs since 2015. Yet the problem isn’t simply that there aren’t enough doctors to staff the NHS.2 It’s that there aren’t enough doctors willing to come to work in poor working conditions for artificially suppressed wages—all so that they can provide care that doesn’t meet the standard they wish to uphold. The workforce crisis is also a retention crisis. More doctors are seeking alternative employment, going overseas, having a break from medicine, or taking early retirement. For example, the percentage …
HypnoticWorking a night shift to support #juniordoctors and their fight for better term and conditions and #PayRestoration For too long the degradation of pay in the NHS has gone unchecked. You all deserve to be paid a wage worthy of your knowledge, skill, dedication, experience and professionalism #nhs #doctor #JuniorDoctorStrikes
@russellt not yet… their T&C’s are broadly similar to those in England and the Scottish ballot for junior doctor stokes is planned for the end of March. They are also asking for full pay restoration, which they should absolutely get. #bma #juniordoctors #JuniorDoctorStrikes #PayRestoration
£14 an hour!! That is all. At the moment Pret A Manger pays its barrista’s £14…. Pay restoration would increase their salary to £19 an hour. £19 an hour for all they do (not to mention their debt) is quite frankly a bargain! #PayRestoration #JuniorDoctorStrikes #JuniorDoctor #supportNHS #SupportJuniorDoctors
Next week in the UK it’s the #JuniorDoctorStrikes our trainees are striking over their terms and conditions at work and are asking the government to reverse the 25% pay cut they have experienced over the last 10 years. I fully support them in their right to strike and also in their fight for #PayRestoration. The NHS is a public service but that doesn’t mean it’s workers should be poorly paid. The right wing press will tell you doctors are ridiculously overpaid but we are not. Don’t be misled.
Phil WilliamsJust had BMA Lincoln Division meeting with update on #JuniorDoctorStrikes
If you’re a #JuniorDoctor :
-ensure details of place of work correct on BMA website
-you have to vote YES in the ballot if you want the option to strike (it doesn’t commit you)
-start saving as you won’t be paid for strike days
If you’re another doctor:
-donate to the strike fund (searchable on the BMA website)
-sign off as many competencies for your juniors as possible. Get them ARCP ready