Highly skilled and qualified staff want high levels of pay for adhoc short term work. How utterly shocking.
Very skilled and senior staff are asking for an increase over their normal rate for working extra hours outside their contractual obligation, you say? Sounds reasonable.
“Turning something into a market makes it better as everything finds its true market value”
“OK, pay us our market value then.”
“Wait, not like that… “
That’s how it works. You can always negotiate a deal with the unions if that isn’t cost effective…
Let’s not forget that these consultants used to be junior doctors who were working obscene hours for crap pay. Now the roles are reversed, and they are making the most of it.
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cost me £350 for a locksmith the other night ( 1 hour ) They can pay a consultant Doctor more than that to start with.
To be fair, that’s half their usual hourly rate for seeing patients….
I think you’ll find that instead of trying to get paid a decent salary for a decent job after decades of training, NHS workers should actually sacrifice themselves as martyrs to the NHS and daily mail readers.
BBC journalists have found out about overtime pay I see.
Consultants were junior doctors themselves once. They should just refuse to work and back those striking.
This article might as well be written by a Tory minister.
The BBC doing the government’s dirty work yet again.
But paying the people currently doing the job for a fraction of that 10% more is outragous
The awkward moment when the NHS can’t give junior doctors a pay rise because they had to pay consultants to cover their absences for strikes…
Yeah, that is a bit above my consulting rate. But it does not sound unreasonable given the conditions.
About half some senior lawyers hourly rate and same as a senior accountant at a firm. Still cheap.
As opposed to so called influencers who rake it in whilst contributing nothing to society
262 an hour to do what exactly ? Phone appointments?
Not greed, they are being recommended to do this so that it’s more reasonable to settle the dispute.
Don’t want to be someone 200% more for the same job?
No worries, just offer a 15% pay rise, sorted.
As a supply teacher I charge £185 per day. This doesn’t seem odd to me at all. Got skills? Get paid.
Offer it as money directly off their student loans, instead of in their pockets.
That’s the market for you! Don’t like it? Treat junior doctors better and they won’t go on strike!
I’ll do it for 120 GBP an hour. I’m sure there’s a few youtube videos you can watch to find out how to be a consultant. Can’t be that difficult reading data off of instruments and walking around in a white coat. I bet there’s some apps you can download and of you’re really stuck you can google anything nowadays.
Seeing a depressing amount of comments talking and scrapping the NHS and making it all private. Is there anything that privatisation has actually made cheaper or better? Obviously looking at all our other services that where sold of as an example here?
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The cost for a private appointment is about £250-£275.
So a Consultants can earn about 4 times these rates rate doing private practice.
By offering to help with the NHS strikes, they are going to be earning a lot less than the would in the Private Sector.
And we’re lucky they’re helping.
There’s not enough money to pay what junior doctors are asking for, sorry but get on with it.
Consultants have years of experience and had to go through the junior doctor grind when they had poor pay and worked ridiculous hours.
We rely on their wealth of knowledge for complex medical issues.
Paying them £262 an hour is a bargain in my eyes and I’m ecstatic that my taxes are going to people who help others with their years of expertise. Fantastic nurses, paramedics, care workers etc.
Why not tax financial services and banks more? I used to work in private banking and they have lots of money which can be taxed.
No surprise that banks made billions of profits. No surprise investment funds have billions of profits.
Tax the ultra high net worth. If you tax a person with £50m. They will be absolutely fine after tax. Their lives won’t change an iota!
Of course they do.
Explain it like I’m five, but what about the Hippocratic Oath??
Yeah pay it.
Don’t want to be thinking, my doctor is pissed off about being paid badly whilst they’re trying to save my life.
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Highly skilled and qualified staff want high levels of pay for adhoc short term work. How utterly shocking.
Very skilled and senior staff are asking for an increase over their normal rate for working extra hours outside their contractual obligation, you say? Sounds reasonable.
“Turning something into a market makes it better as everything finds its true market value”
“OK, pay us our market value then.”
“Wait, not like that… “
That’s how it works. You can always negotiate a deal with the unions if that isn’t cost effective…
Let’s not forget that these consultants used to be junior doctors who were working obscene hours for crap pay. Now the roles are reversed, and they are making the most of it.
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cost me £350 for a locksmith the other night ( 1 hour ) They can pay a consultant Doctor more than that to start with.
To be fair, that’s half their usual hourly rate for seeing patients….
I think you’ll find that instead of trying to get paid a decent salary for a decent job after decades of training, NHS workers should actually sacrifice themselves as martyrs to the NHS and daily mail readers.
BBC journalists have found out about overtime pay I see.
Consultants were junior doctors themselves once. They should just refuse to work and back those striking.
This article might as well be written by a Tory minister.
The BBC doing the government’s dirty work yet again.
But paying the people currently doing the job for a fraction of that 10% more is outragous
The awkward moment when the NHS can’t give junior doctors a pay rise because they had to pay consultants to cover their absences for strikes…
Yeah, that is a bit above my consulting rate. But it does not sound unreasonable given the conditions.
About half some senior lawyers hourly rate and same as a senior accountant at a firm. Still cheap.
As opposed to so called influencers who rake it in whilst contributing nothing to society
262 an hour to do what exactly ? Phone appointments?
Not greed, they are being recommended to do this so that it’s more reasonable to settle the dispute.
Don’t want to be someone 200% more for the same job?
No worries, just offer a 15% pay rise, sorted.
As a supply teacher I charge £185 per day. This doesn’t seem odd to me at all. Got skills? Get paid.
Offer it as money directly off their student loans, instead of in their pockets.
That’s the market for you! Don’t like it? Treat junior doctors better and they won’t go on strike!
I’ll do it for 120 GBP an hour. I’m sure there’s a few youtube videos you can watch to find out how to be a consultant. Can’t be that difficult reading data off of instruments and walking around in a white coat. I bet there’s some apps you can download and of you’re really stuck you can google anything nowadays.
Seeing a depressing amount of comments talking and scrapping the NHS and making it all private. Is there anything that privatisation has actually made cheaper or better? Obviously looking at all our other services that where sold of as an example here?
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The cost for a private appointment is about £250-£275.
So a Consultants can earn about 4 times these rates rate doing private practice.
By offering to help with the NHS strikes, they are going to be earning a lot less than the would in the Private Sector.
And we’re lucky they’re helping.
There’s not enough money to pay what junior doctors are asking for, sorry but get on with it.
Consultants have years of experience and had to go through the junior doctor grind when they had poor pay and worked ridiculous hours.
We rely on their wealth of knowledge for complex medical issues.
Paying them £262 an hour is a bargain in my eyes and I’m ecstatic that my taxes are going to people who help others with their years of expertise. Fantastic nurses, paramedics, care workers etc.
Why not tax financial services and banks more? I used to work in private banking and they have lots of money which can be taxed.
No surprise that banks made billions of profits. No surprise investment funds have billions of profits.
Tax the ultra high net worth. If you tax a person with £50m. They will be absolutely fine after tax. Their lives won’t change an iota!
Of course they do.
Explain it like I’m five, but what about the Hippocratic Oath??
Yeah pay it.
Don’t want to be thinking, my doctor is pissed off about being paid badly whilst they’re trying to save my life.