To wonder if the Doctors strike will still go ahead next week?

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Does anyone know when it will be decided if the strike will be called off because of the flu next week?

What do you think about it?

Thanks for the post.

These posters are on all a lot of the doctor threads especially when prioritisation of British Medical Graduates is mentioned..
I wonder why anyone would waste their energy posting...? Suggestions about motivation have been mentioned on other threads.

They work in teams and seek to discredit anyone that tells the truth. For example saying my DC is in a trust grade job was deliberately spun into me looking down on those in trust grade jobs. This was done to move the conversation away from the fact that the 2025 cohort of UKMGs had to compete with each other along with 20,803 IMGs. 63% of applicants for specialty training were from IMGs.

The points based system is not fair to UKMGs and there have been posts on other threads that it is open to manipulation from outside UK.

Why should thousands of UKMGs be unemployed due to too much competition from IMGs? It is madness having unemployed UKMGs while importing foreign doctors possibly from red list countries.

195 other countries prioritise their own medical graduates and the UK did until January 2020. Streeting could have introduced a new rule for the Oriel application cycle that all applicants should have 2 years NHS experience. That would have protected UKMGs and IMGs already working in the NHS for 2 years.

My DC did two years of surgical training and passed MRCS part A and B first time but now marking time as an SHO when he should be working as a reg in his chosen specialty and building on his skills. A poster on here seemed to think a year of a completely different job was useful to my DC.. The same poster that thought that doctors did not have to have their own indemnity insurance as they could rely on Crown Indemnity and made an unpleasant comment about ND. Vile.

My DC was at medical school when the decision to drop the Resident Market Labour Test was made. The result is it is destroying UKMGs chance of employment and progression.

A message to the more unbalanced posters
I see your name and immediately scroll on without reading.

What have PAs got to do with pay restoration on a flase incex than no one else uses to look at cost over time/

Not an attempt to silence anyone but the rudeness, and arrogance of the comments that they know best because thier children are doctors - bears no reality to those posters who are doctors, work in the health service. If you are not insupport of the strikes and there are many doctors whoa re not then youa re anti doctor - I am not anti doctor but anti false information and direspect of other peoples qualifications that 2 posters on here consistently express.

The derision for anyone but resident doctors, consultants are all considered privileged people who never had to abttel for their careers. The stats show the vast majority of ukmgs progress to further training within 3 yrs of FY2 - what is bad about that statistic - nothing.

My experience is valid, my opinion is based on fact and seeing the every day relaity of working on the shopfloor of the NHS

My DC did two years of surgical training and passed MRCS part A and B first time - pass rate fo part A is 55% so yes, he was more likely to pass first time than failure. Part B has a pass rate of 75% so again he was more likely to pass than fail and if they passed part A first time had a greater likelihood of apssing part B first time. He did well but with those statistics so did a lot of other poeple so passing is not a given right to getting the next step for anyone.

but now marking time as an SHO when he should be working as a reg in his chosen specialty and building on his skills - no he is not marking time as an an sho, he is learning new skills and new knowledge which will hopefully make him a more holistic doctor. If he is in a trust grade surgical job then those operative skills/outpatient diagnostic skills he is learning are transferable form one speciality to another. Your inability to see how most jobs in medicine have transferable skills increase knowledge etc does make me question your assertion that you know so much about medicine and surgery that all the other posters opinions are derided and scorned by you.

A poster on here seemed to think a year of a completely different job was useful to my DC - yes it is..
The same poster that thought that doctors did not have to have their own indemnity insurance as they could rely on Crown Indemnity - they do not need ti when working in an NHS hospital. Crown indeminity does cover them for their actions in the hospital. However, do not know many doctors who do not get their own personal indemnity but I can assure you having indemnity is not an employment check on acquiring a medical job in the NHS.

and made an unpleasant comment about ND - well if you can not tell by some of my own fairly shoddy spelling on occasion - I may know a thing or two about ND and at the end of the day a contextual offer lowering the level of grades you need does not supplant the need to eb able to read and write well - yes there are coping mechanisms most of us imply, computers are a god send but the explosion in ND diagnoses and thus lower grade averages may help you get into med school but no patient gives toss about your inability to read or write when you are shocking their heart . cutting them up - they are relying on you being able to read and have been taught and examiend to the highest standard of all candidates.

Vile - is your derision for anyone other than resident doctors, your refusal to recognise that anyone other than a resident doctor has difficulties and your distortion of facts to fit your narrative. Yes there was more competiion this year gut 60% of training jobs went to UKMGS bucking the statistic of all the Overseas taking the majority of the jobs.

Most ukmg resident progress to their speciality within 4 yrs of finishing FY2 - please tell me what is wrong with that statistic?