I really really begrudge this...

[Flossam]

Having to pay £129 every 3 years to be able to practise as a nurse. This isn't insurance, I pay well over £150 a year out for that to another body. This is just to be able to be a nurse in this country and look after patients. The police don't have to pay, they get free transport too - better pension, quicker retirement... Feeling ver bitter and angry

My DH is a taxi driver andhas to pay £300 every year to renew his licence.

Sympathy, I have to pay to teach as well. And I pay my union diues which helps to cover insurance etc as well

DONT GET ME STARTED ON THIS Floss......
I just payed mine, muttering and fuming while writing the cheque...

on your behalf.... Infuriating

We teachers pay something like £50 per annum to the General Teaching Council. Without this payment and registration we wouldn't be able to teach anywhere. And I pay £120 per annum to my union. It's very unfair i agree Floss

And while joining the union is optional you have to be insane to teach without Union back up IMHO

I filled in that GTC thing when I was supply teaching. I then stopped doing supply and got myself taken off the register. I asked the person what happens if I started teaching again, could they find me? he said they had no procedures in place. I then started doing supply again and they haven't found me yet.

Its a really crap thing though for nurses and teachers.

dh pays £500 a year to be registered and £4000 a year for insurance...

We cant practice unless we are registered.
Additionally we have to prove that we have undertaken further education in order to be re registered, i should have joined the police i think.

Good Lord lailag,is your dh a Dr?

I wasn't aware teachers had to pay for this type of thing too. It is very unfair. I was hoping to try and start saving towards our big move that we're hoping will take place next year this month, this cost has been the final nail in the coffin! I'm very bitter!

dh is a GP and no he doesn't earn £100,000 (as mentioned in another tread), the avertage GP supposedly earns £50,000 (according to bbc).
BTW, obstetricians earning between £50,000 and 75,000 pay £31,000 for insurance...

Ooo that is a lot of money! Inequetous!

Ooh, you should see what the GMC, BMA and Royla College of Physicians charge every bloody year

yes, but we are not supposed to complain about money as we have enough to eat and now live in a nice house. (Although we have also lived in a room 2 by 2.5 meters, sharing the rest of the house with 6 others, at a time we both were unemployed, etc)

Dh pays to be registered as a theatre nurse... and until he changed jobs he was forced to pay to park at the hospital - they take it out of their wages at source if they have a car park pass - how outrageous is that!!!! He's just defected from the NHS to a private hospital and now doesn't pay for car parking or meals, unlike his much-lower-paid ex NHS colleagues. How does that one work then?????

My dh has to pay an annual fee of well over 100gbp to be registered with his Institute. I guess most professionals have to do something similar?

I have to pay over £100 pa to an association to be able to say I'm a member too. But I earn more than a nurse and I do think it's a bit much if you work for the NHS and are paid their appalling rates.

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Lailag - it was me that posted the £100k on the other thread - I got it the telegraph - admittedly it refers to an expectation that the aveage will be £100k for this year.

Floss are you an agency nurse??

I thought that those employed by the NHS had these costs met be them???

SB, no I am emplyed by the NHS. If they do it is news to me and and awful lot of other nurses!

I pay £215 a year to Microsoft to be able to do my job....!

I am a fee-free professional, and I am not even in a union at the moment, or any professional body.
However, my industry is highly unstable. I could be made redundant any moment.