Why not eh? We can see how attractive an option the UK remains for foreign medical workers when it starts losing native medical workers to foreign systems. Everyone knows that medical workers are flocking to countries like India, Pakistan, Nigeria etc that have been losing their own doctors and nurses hand over fist right.
They are on around £90,000 year let them go elsewhere.
This is happening across many fields. I’m in the STEM field and most of my colleagues who have gotten their PhD are looking for the door. The UK is criminally underpaid across the board, there’s no good reason to stay.
It’s obvious the tories want to kill the NHS, because they can profit off of that. Just like with Brexit.
Disgusting.
I’m not saying it doesn’t happen but this is just a story with anecdotal evidence. Surely there must be numbers available? Show me that this is a real problem rather than just a scare story about the NHS.
“Triple the salaries” where and how many DRs are moving there?
Brain drain in a country where highly skilled professionals aren’t paid enough for their skill level?
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you.
The party who claims to understand market forces doesn’t actually understand market forces, who would have thunk it.
This is a big big problem. If enough leave then the UK’s mortality rates will rise significantly and for quite a period of time. It takes years to educate and train new doctors. A good dozen years at least. And to increase production isn’t simple because of capacity limits… there are only so many spots. You can increase the number of spots a bit, but the more you increase then the lower the quality of education. Two shitty doctor is not the equivalent of one good doctor.
Remember this isn’t a bug it’s a feature of the tories running down the NHS
This will get slaughtered on Reddit, but Rory Stewart made an interesting point in ‘The Rest Is Politics’ podcast a few weeks ago:
The same doctors and nurses who demand a 100% publicly funded healthcare system, are flocking to countries who have partially privatised systems in order to take advantage of the higher pay.
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Why not eh? We can see how attractive an option the UK remains for foreign medical workers when it starts losing native medical workers to foreign systems. Everyone knows that medical workers are flocking to countries like India, Pakistan, Nigeria etc that have been losing their own doctors and nurses hand over fist right.
They are on around £90,000 year let them go elsewhere.
This is happening across many fields. I’m in the STEM field and most of my colleagues who have gotten their PhD are looking for the door. The UK is criminally underpaid across the board, there’s no good reason to stay.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/06/14/doctors-salaries-which-countries-pay-the-most-and-least-in-europe
It’s obvious the tories want to kill the NHS, because they can profit off of that. Just like with Brexit.
Disgusting.
I’m not saying it doesn’t happen but this is just a story with anecdotal evidence. Surely there must be numbers available? Show me that this is a real problem rather than just a scare story about the NHS.
“Triple the salaries” where and how many DRs are moving there?
Brain drain in a country where highly skilled professionals aren’t paid enough for their skill level?
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you.
The party who claims to understand market forces doesn’t actually understand market forces, who would have thunk it.
This is a big big problem. If enough leave then the UK’s mortality rates will rise significantly and for quite a period of time. It takes years to educate and train new doctors. A good dozen years at least. And to increase production isn’t simple because of capacity limits… there are only so many spots. You can increase the number of spots a bit, but the more you increase then the lower the quality of education. Two shitty doctor is not the equivalent of one good doctor.
Remember this isn’t a bug it’s a feature of the tories running down the NHS
This will get slaughtered on Reddit, but Rory Stewart made an interesting point in ‘The Rest Is Politics’ podcast a few weeks ago:
The same doctors and nurses who demand a 100% publicly funded healthcare system, are flocking to countries who have partially privatised systems in order to take advantage of the higher pay.
Can anyone see the double-think here?