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Looks like a junior doctors strike is coming. Reasonable or unreasonable?

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Erica56 · 30/09/2022 21:14

www.bma.org.uk/pay-and-contracts/pay/junior-doctors-pay-scales/fair-pay-for-junior-doctors-in-england

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SirMingeALot · 10/11/2022 20:25

It's reasonable.

walkinginsunshinekat · 11/11/2022 09:12

beachcitygirl · 10/11/2022 20:15

And if they're overworked and underpaid people
Will die.

Yes this.
People need to remember that its the Tories that under paid NHS workers for 12 years but perhaps even more importantly, after the Pandemic, instead of giving them a well deserved pay rise, offered them 1%, that was increased but it left huge resentment and lost what little goodwill remained.

The Tories have caused this state of affairs and are 100% to blame for any patients suffering or even dying (as they are already, yet little outrage from our Tory supporting posters or media)

Stompythedinosaur · 11/11/2022 09:48

I support them!

LeMoo · 11/11/2022 11:36

walkinginsunshinekat · 11/11/2022 09:12

Yes this.
People need to remember that its the Tories that under paid NHS workers for 12 years but perhaps even more importantly, after the Pandemic, instead of giving them a well deserved pay rise, offered them 1%, that was increased but it left huge resentment and lost what little goodwill remained.

The Tories have caused this state of affairs and are 100% to blame for any patients suffering or even dying (as they are already, yet little outrage from our Tory supporting posters or media)

They have also voted to increase their own MP salaries every time, at much higher rates, while enjoying heavily subsidised facilities.

Parliament hasn't missed a summer recess even when the country has been facing the greatest crises of a generation.

One rule for them, another for everyone else.

Usernamen · 11/11/2022 11:49

CanaryShoulderedThorn · 01/10/2022 11:14

My husband teaches A level chemistry, previously he had many children in his class go on to study medicine, now no one aspires to.

I personally know 2 medics who have given up practicing due to stress, one is now a yoga teacher and the other opened a coffee shop.

Who can blame them.

This is happening across the professions. The younger generations are smarter than we are and value quality of life and well-being more than money and status. Where I work (London Finance) we’ve had young people leave in recent years to become: a gigs/festivals photographer, a DJ (also left London for Berlin), charity worker in Africa.

SirMingeALot · 11/11/2022 11:58

And the best of luck to them. It would be naive indeed to expect our young people to buy into a model that isn't going to deliver for a lot of them. We aren't entitled to their participation.

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