As expected of the BBC based on yesterday’s shenanigans.
No mention of that huge pay cut jr docs have had.
No mention of the massive crisis of retention and training
Uses pay rise and not pay restoration.
Then finally asks people to mention how they’ve been harmed to create more of a moral narrative against doctors.
Our beef is with the government who absolutely refuse to engage in any meaningful way. Barclay even said himself he had no mandate to increase pay so any negotiation is a waste of our time.
Following this Barclay hasn’t even shown up to any meetings he’s arranged.
In any other field of work you’d get rinsed by your employer for such crap performance. But if you’re a Tory you get to cosplay government on easy mode while the rest of us pay the cost.
Whilst the narrative will be that people come to harm because of the strikes (which evidence shows they won’t), it completely ignores all those that have died early from preventable things because of Tory cuts.
Unsurprisingly a disproportionate focus on cancelled elective operations. While we completely sympathise with delayed operations the government has overseen 15 years of increasing wait times with little outrage, yet all of a sudden 3 days of strikes and it’s all the doctors fault.
There’s also this strange idea that people are entitled to doctors’ labour regardless of how poorly you treat them. You are basically saying I’m going to pay you as little as I can get away with and if you complain or strike you are heartless.
Doctors can and will quit or emigrate for better opportunities, it’s like the public think that if you don’t give them a serious offer and strikes fail everything will go back to business as usual. No you will have an even more disgruntled group of highly employable people looking for a life outside the NHS.
By paying doctors properly you will keep them, don’t and you won’t. If you want your operation ASAP pay them because strikes will extend your wait and doctors quitting will also extend your wait. There are lots of people waiting for operations in other countries too, who realise that you can’t have a first class service on budget pay.
I see they’re picking 2008 as the year to which they want their pay “restored”.
Why that year in particular….why not 1997, or 2000?
Oh, because those “restorations” would mean taking a salary decrease. Much more lucrative to pick 2008, because that year happens to follow a solid decade of massive above-inflation pay increases for doctors.
This is very, very serious. Junior doctors in reality are not that junior at all, they are adults and need to be treated like proper, full time, working adults in a workplace, not some kind of pseudo expendable pool of interns. This is not the USA.
If a large proportion of Junior doctors pack it in, because this strike doesn’t get resolved, we are looking at the future consultants, the future GPs, the future specialist practitioners, just disappearing. The NHS is already at breaking point, if these talented people were to leave then there would be no choice for the NHS but to rely on extremely expensive locums and touring doctors, in a rapidly shrinking pool of available and not retired professionals.
It’s odd because this doesn’t conveniently benefit the private sector either – if the doctors emigrate or sack it in and do something else, the talent pool still shrinks, even for the private healthcare recruiters, who end up paying more.
It will affect you a lot less than doctors continuing to be forced to work in shit conditions will.
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As expected of the BBC based on yesterday’s shenanigans.
No mention of that huge pay cut jr docs have had.
No mention of the massive crisis of retention and training
Uses pay rise and not pay restoration.
Then finally asks people to mention how they’ve been harmed to create more of a moral narrative against doctors.
Our beef is with the government who absolutely refuse to engage in any meaningful way. Barclay even said himself he had no mandate to increase pay so any negotiation is a waste of our time.
Following this Barclay hasn’t even shown up to any meetings he’s arranged.
In any other field of work you’d get rinsed by your employer for such crap performance. But if you’re a Tory you get to cosplay government on easy mode while the rest of us pay the cost.
Whilst the narrative will be that people come to harm because of the strikes (which evidence shows they won’t), it completely ignores all those that have died early from preventable things because of Tory cuts.
Unsurprisingly a disproportionate focus on cancelled elective operations. While we completely sympathise with delayed operations the government has overseen 15 years of increasing wait times with little outrage, yet all of a sudden 3 days of strikes and it’s all the doctors fault.
There’s also this strange idea that people are entitled to doctors’ labour regardless of how poorly you treat them. You are basically saying I’m going to pay you as little as I can get away with and if you complain or strike you are heartless.
Doctors can and will quit or emigrate for better opportunities, it’s like the public think that if you don’t give them a serious offer and strikes fail everything will go back to business as usual. No you will have an even more disgruntled group of highly employable people looking for a life outside the NHS.
By paying doctors properly you will keep them, don’t and you won’t. If you want your operation ASAP pay them because strikes will extend your wait and doctors quitting will also extend your wait. There are lots of people waiting for operations in other countries too, who realise that you can’t have a first class service on budget pay.
I see they’re picking 2008 as the year to which they want their pay “restored”.
Why that year in particular….why not 1997, or 2000?
Oh, because those “restorations” would mean taking a salary decrease. Much more lucrative to pick 2008, because that year happens to follow a solid decade of massive above-inflation pay increases for doctors.
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This is very, very serious. Junior doctors in reality are not that junior at all, they are adults and need to be treated like proper, full time, working adults in a workplace, not some kind of pseudo expendable pool of interns. This is not the USA.
If a large proportion of Junior doctors pack it in, because this strike doesn’t get resolved, we are looking at the future consultants, the future GPs, the future specialist practitioners, just disappearing. The NHS is already at breaking point, if these talented people were to leave then there would be no choice for the NHS but to rely on extremely expensive locums and touring doctors, in a rapidly shrinking pool of available and not retired professionals.
It’s odd because this doesn’t conveniently benefit the private sector either – if the doctors emigrate or sack it in and do something else, the talent pool still shrinks, even for the private healthcare recruiters, who end up paying more.
It will affect you a lot less than doctors continuing to be forced to work in shit conditions will.