Is there sympathy for consultants striking?

[LadyTemperance]

Just as the thread title says, do you feel sympathy for the consultant doctors pay demands. I understand their pay has not gone up for many years meaning they have had a cut in real terms. That being said a quick google tells me they start on 88k and have regular pay rises not based on performance.
They are hardly on the bread line are they?

Or they can take their skills elsewhere where they will be more valued. I would!

That's not true though is it? Everyone I've ever met thinks legal fees are ridiculous and not in line with the actual work provided.

Same goes for price-gouging plumbers. No-one I've ever met complains about paying for work done but do get fucked off with what is charged in terms of labour, call out charges etc.

This is why these threads degenerate into ridiculousness because posters make nonsensical comparisons which aren't in any way comparable.

And completely ignore the number of posters who have intimate knowledge of consultants who are living very good lifestyles on their very good pay and really are not suffering under poor working conditions and stressed to the max but working under very good conditions.

The NHS is a diverse workforce.Some consultants may be having a shit time. Many are not and are not supporting strike action.

Well no, they mustn't be. Other options are available. That's rather the problem.

Because people are more than happy that their solicitor charges £300 per hour, but not someone on call overnight to save their life. Or £100 an hour for their plumber.

I've never met anyone who thought lawyers deserved their fees or plumbers! I can guarantee no one would have sympathy if they were striking!

I think I mostly feel disappointed.

I know a lot of medics and friends, and spent a long time in hospital for different reasons as a young person. The one thing that always stood them apart was their principled stance, integrity and deep wisdom.

At no point would they muddy their hands in
this action; so it feels like the new crop are now no different to your average hedge fund manager. The grasping and greed is exactly the same. So I guess the one reason they are held in such high esteem is slowly being eroded away.

Do people actually think solicitors keep that £300 an hour. They really don’t.

BMA balloted all Consultant members. Turn out was 71%.

Of those that responded 86% agreed with industrial action.
Quite persuasive numbers.

Yes, I support them fully.

They could easily earn much more and have a better lifestyle emigrating to another country.

GCalltheway appears to be an ignorant troll. He/ she is also very healthy and will never need medical care.

otherwise he/ she wouldn’t say such extraordinarily stupid things.

😂You are embarrassing yourself now

Nope

Really? I just see it as greed

Yes consultants want their pay restored.
What is wrong with that?
Should never have been devalued as it has.

Support my consultant colleagues 100%

With a starting salary of £88,000 and a range up to £120,000 I can not agree. We know that many work privately earning up to £180,000 or more.

In what world is this work in any way devalued?? Genuinely curious.

No. That's why these comparisons never work.

When I was managing the budget for my NHS team, the consultant cost £500 a day.

I know he wasn't taking that home. But he was clearly a high-earner.

It’s grotesque to squeeze families already struggling with huge col bills, to refuse to treat the very people that pay you and then to blackmail them into agreeing a 35% rate increase when you are already wealthy and these poor people can’t afford to even feed their own children must less fund your second home/sports car, it just repulses me. At every level this is absolutely abhorrent.

The difference between uk doctor pay and oversea pay. Adverts from Denmark and New Zealand for UK Doctors. Plus doctors are being poached by financial institutions as well.

@GCalltheway that’s an incredibly stupid argument you put forward. Why would doctors from overseas come and take a consultants job here when there are many other countries that value them properly? Doctors are leaving the NHS in droves? Like it or not, you need them they don’t need you.

@Queenofthenight123 £500 a day doesn’t sound much at all for a consultant imo

@GCalltheway wanted to be a doctor but failed to get into medical school. She got the grades but was appalling at interview. Ironically she earns twice the salary of the average doctor now and in her spare time trolls them on the internet as she only does a 40 hour week.

Disclaimer: this may not be entirely factual

This post truly says everything about you.

I don’t need them, no, and quite frankly I would rather die in the street than be subjected to your patronising and insulting treatment. Or choose a private hospital that actually prioritises the patient.

You are doing yourself no favours btw. You are coming across as rude and ignorant.

And which consultants do you think are going to be working in your private hospitals you total clown? Not the nasty NHS ones? Do you think they have their own privately-generated consultants that they grow in house? Just stop embarrassing yourself.

GCalltheway would choose a private hospital. But doesn’t want a consultant of any sort.

LOL