Junior doctors offered 22% pay rise

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How and where will the government get the money from I wonder?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjqe82lk5g5o

How about they stop paying billions each year to agency workers and their bosses? If they just paid a good wage that would be enough to recruit and retain Nurses and Doctors everything would improve. Staff will stay and feel valued, less sickness, better patient outcomes (eg cancelled ops due to staffing) then they can stop the dependency on agency staff and afford to make the NHS a good place to work.

Also there is a whole raft of non clinical 8a's in my trust who are doing roles that aren't needed and could be condensed.

By increasing the tax burden on all the people who have also had below inflation pay rises for 15 years & who are continuing to get them...

The fact is that the private sector has raced ahead of the public sector for years now in terms of pay. Public sector employees - you know, those people who didn’t get any furlough and worked through the pandemic - are leaving or else losing their homes. It’s a massive crisis.

When you look at like for like jobs in terms of responsibility and stress, it’s bonkers.

Or the railway line to my town, which has only one road in or out! Mind you it's meant to cost £150million...for four miles of track...that's already there and just ha has to be up graded

Would be interesting to see on what labour are intending on doing for Consultant docs

the chancellor had to do something to stop the strikes otherwise the waiting lists will keep growing and productivity will go down as a proportion of the population will be too ill to work. A situation I was in last year.
How it will be paid for is questionable. I do hope it doesn’t cause inflation to increase as I don’t think households can take much more financial pressure

Yes this. Priotising spending from silly projects

I'd happily pay more tax, we need doctors!!! Every single person needs health care from the moment they are born until they die. It is so so important and the stress for people on huge waiting lists is horrendous. Not to mention people living with chronic pain & disabilities. I in 2 people will get cancer. By investing in doctors we are investing in ourselves and our families. I know it's not black and white & people are struggling but our health care professionals deserve to be well paid for the mammoth job they undertake daily.

You know they have Already speeded up the processing and used the Rwanda planes to send those not eligable for refugee status home. Already saving a fortune and all done humanely

Good, so they should.

I enjoy my job and have experience and qualifications to back it up but the fact that I am paid more than doctors is ludicrous compared to what they do, the stress of it and the hours.

The funding will come from reducing tax relief on pension contributions, Labour like a good raid on pensions.

Where do they get the money for MP bonuses, subsidised bars and restaurants, for staffing up the wall on ridiculous notions such as Rwanda, or lining the pockets of themselves and their cronies?
Where do they get the money for paying non-medically qualified assistants more than doctors?

*spaffing

Good news.

Hopefully this will stop the haemorrhage of doctors to overseas (where wages are still even with this projected raise much higher even taking into account the exchange rate and living. Doctors are one of the most important professions, about time this was sorted.

They could raise inheritance tax to 50% for a start.

Taxation and cutting back on infrastructure project(s). There was mention of a bypass tunnel near Stonehenge being scrapped. That was controversial in the first place so probably won't be too much of an issue. If they can end the strikes then that's got to be good news.

I think something has to be done with public pensions - an employee on 30k in public sector gets the same pension as private employee on 50k. This doesn't help younger people who want to buy a house, start family etc, they need money now. But funding all these rises attracts a huge tax bill for pensions, so distribution of pay across lifecycle has to be changed

There is and edit facility, you know!

The initial rise is likely to be recouped in the savings made by catching illnesses earlier before people need intensive treatment, not to mention by the revenue generated by more people regaining the ability to work and not claiming sickness benefits. And presumably some savings will be made by having more permanent members of staff rather than paying private HCPs above the standard salary.

Saw a huge billboard in in a city centre recently encouraging HCPs to go and work abroad and was actually surprised it had been authorised. We need to treat them way better to try and retain them.

Hopefully MP's will freeze their own pay and subsidise it from the savings they make.

OBVS the money they will make from the private shool VAT thing surely - didn’t they say it would bring them billions?!

Oh yes and everything that comes with it.

They don’t - they are quite underpaid compared to consultant doctors in other countries - hence why they leave. The weather or the working conditions won’t entice them back either.

Can MN please run some sort of course on economics and funding? All these 'where does money come from' post are getting very tedious

Good.Too many are going abroad for better pay and conditions.