Liz Truss working on plan to stop GPs leaving NHS

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  1. Doctors hitting their pension fund cap and then being taxed through the nose if they continue working is actually a genuine problem that needs fixing, to be fair. A stopped clock is right twice a day…

  2. A simpler solution would be to reverse the Theresa May bill, and allow doctors to work outside IR35 again. Its was the main reason all my doctors friends have started doing less hours and some even moved to work abroad.

    But the Tories will never do that since the whole reason they made that bill is to bring the NHS to its knees and closer to privatisation.

  3. Pretty much everyone I know who is on the higher tax bracket is cutting hours. Some people just work for 6 months and then leave the country some place cheap.

    I mean if you make £100k (and assuming your paying Employer’s NI if you are on a temp contract), then your effective tax rate is above 50%.

    It means that half of the year you work only for taxes. Then you have a burglary and call the police and they ignore you the same way as someone who does not pay tax. GP won’t see them and they keep hitting that pothole that has not been repaired for months.

    I am not saying that people who pay more tax should expect better service, but rather they see their money is going down the drain.

    That’s one problem, but another problem is that corporations are struggling to keep talent as they have to dramatically raise wages to make up for the perceived loss and not many can afford that. This also affects lower paid workers, because if the extra money goes to those higher paid workers, there is no money for their pay rises.

    Progressive tax with its thresholds set so low is what kills productivity now. Higher rate starts at £50k, but £50k today is not the same as 20 years ago.

  4. Does it include respect, dignity, pay commensurate with the job, backing for the NHS? If not, any words are fluff and promises empty.

  5. There’s a probably incorrect theory about the early days of the iron age, when smithing was a valuable skill – almost regarded as mystical. The idea was the the villages would hobble the blacksmith, breaking their legs so they couldn’t leave.

    Given the conservative’s record over the last 10 years, I really hope that Liz Truss hasn’t heard of this.

  6. A good start would be incentivise them to want to have a job as a GP in the first place. Perhaps NHS staff should have their student debts forgiven if they work in the NHS for 10 years.

  7. Kind of a risky move bringing retired doctors back to work. It can be a physically difficult job if you have a lot of patients A a lot of GPs old enough to retire are also old enough to be at risk from covid or other infectious diseases.

    I think the best way to fix the NHS’ staff problem right now is to hire more HR and admin staff.

    I’m no doctor, but I have worked for the NHS, and actually getting onto the NHS Bank is a nightmare. They need a ton of documents and all the support you get is an email address that mostly replies with templates. And this is from a British citizen with a British passport, I know several hardworking immigrant MLAs and porters who got private sector jobs because they couldn’t get through the excess red tape. It sounds crazy, but the admin was often more stressful worse than the actual work.

  8. It’s funny that in 2015, Cameron promised 5000 more GPs and since then thousands of full-time equivalent GPs have been lost due to Tory policy.

    Hang on, is this satire?

  9. It’s interesting that her plan makes it more about stopping them leaving rather than providing solutions that will not give them reason to leave?

  10. TL;DR

    HMRC uses the previous years inflation rate to calculate how much your pension can grow by, while the pension uses THIS years inflation rate…and if the difference is negative HMRC dont credit you the difference.

    Which can be solved in two ways, either make both use the SAME year figure…or allow crediting for negative values against future tax, like they do for fucking corporations.

  11. This is obviously a ploy to make doctors quit, further undermining the system for its eventual collapse.

  12. “I will keep Doctors in our NHS by gun point if I have to”- Liz Truss Army Chiefs debriefing. 2022.

  13. >Your appointment to see your GP has been confirmed, please attend HMP near to you at visiting hours

    “See I fixed the issue!” Liz truss

  14. Twelve years, TWELVE YEARS! After twelve years of running the country into the ground, people are thinking this bunch of chancers have any ideas or intentions beyond their own self interest, are delusional.

  15. Will it involve improving conditions and pay? Or is it more likely to involve chaining them up in their offices?

  16. Is it confiscating their car keys? I’m pretty sure that’s the best her smooth brain could come up with.

  17. It’s going to be fantastic entertainment when this fruitloop becomes the English Taoiseach. 😂

  18. So, better pay? Better working conditions? Better hours? Funding the NHS properly?

    No?

    Think it’d be more likely she’d make the lockdown clapping a mandatory, weekly thing. And that’s it.

  19. Fixed title: ‘Total moron tells someone else to work on a plan to fix a problem they caused and already knew about because they are total morons’.

  20. Coming from the same woman who is looking to make industrial action and protests illegal.

    Probably one of the most extreme potential leaders to have the opportunity to lead the country, terrifying.

  21. How can they carry this out may I ask? It seems a impossible fight imho. And plenty of workers have already left the hospital, due to how covid was handled previously.

  22. Why do I feel like this isn’t going to be a positive like increasing pay or improving working conditions and is instead going to be some bullshit like mandatory years of service and forced work?

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