Doctors in England to go on strike in run-up to Christmas

https://news.sky.com/story/doctors-in-england-to-go-on-strike-in-run-up-to-christmas-13477102

Posted by Distinct-Shine-3002

20 comments

  2. I suppose when you take a resident Doctor’s hourly rate of £18.62 (as claimed by the BMA) and compare that to the recent minimum wage increase to £12.71, you can understand it.

    Resident Doctors have *literal lives* in their hands and are paid £4 per hour more than someone stocking shelves (I’m not knocking people who stock shelves, it’s just a bit of a difference in responsibility that I think warrants more than £4 per hour).

  3. Get back to work.
    Down vote me on a biblical scale!!!

  5. Hopefully the fiscal headroom will allow such things to be resolved so we can get back to a fairer more equitable society where vocations are rewarded and not exploited by the wealthy few.

  6. Labour MPs and leftist reddit supported doctors strikes in 2012, 2015, 2016, 2022, 2023 and 2024. I wonder will they be ideologically consistent in their support, now that it’s destabilising a Labour government and not a Tory one. 🤔

  7. I dont object they should get pay more but they literally had a pretty big payrise less than a year ago..

  9. As per the last round of strikes. most of this isnt about pay at all. Its about job security. Theres not enough posts and many are not taken by UK grads, leading to 1 post for 14 folks. Thus leaving them jobless and at the mercy of the NHS as the monopoly employer. They either dont work and save our lives or leave to places like Australia or Canada, therefore increasing brain drain for the UK and us taxpayers losing out as fund most of the training.

    Reform lot should stand with them, it keeps the jobs available for UK folks and not ‘Johnny foreigner’.

    But as usual it’s crabs in a bucket mentality of UK folks. My pay, conditions, job security sucks so you should suffer. We should all hope to have a union to fight for our pay and jobs like the BMA.

  10. The black hole of doctors is fast approaching. Doctors/public service workers have had pay rises to the extent that many of them now earn over 100k over a full time week and are actively looking to reduce their hours to combat the tax cliff edge.

    So by paying doctors more they’ve created a situation in which there will now be a *shortage* of doctors.

    You couldn’t make it up.

    I’m all for people earning their crust based on societal importance but holding the country to ransom then reducing your hours because you’re getting paid too much to work full time is criminally underrepresented in the reporting.

  11. So did they cut the rates of pay between the time they started to train to become doctor’s and when they qualified 🤔. Or did they know the rates of pay then become doctor’s anyway, then just try to hold the country/people lives to ransom until they get what they want ?

  12. *looks at the time-critical repeat prescription due right before xmas*

    Marvellous…

  13. I for one am glad we have a government where the adults are in charge

  15. Labour will sort it won’t they, well that’s what they said they would.

  16. Best union ever if only unison and the rcn would fk off and all the nhs staff could Join the BMA

  17. This is why healthcare could never be a human right. But a lot of people don’t like to hear that.

  18. So glad I’m paying even more tax to pander to these clowns

  19. If only the rest of the NHS had gotten the same percentage rises that they have, greedy t####.

  20. I never really know how to deal with this topic.

    I agree that Doctors should be paid more given how important the role is but… they are…?

    Their long term financial outcome is great, consultants make six figures which relative to any meaningful stat in the UK is a top percentile of income.

    The only issue is that they start on fairly low salaries but isn’t this normal? It’s just really difficult. Referencing other countries like the US is irrelevant as their economy dwarfs ours and their healthcare isn’t publicly funded. We realistically can never pay what doctors are ‘worth’ if its publicly run.

    I’d argue paramedics and nurses should get paid more and that this is where the priority should be. I rarely see any doctors in hospitals due to how understaffed they are outside of a few minutes worth of ward rounds they are non-existent leaving most of the work to nurses etc who get paid nothing.

    I have many friends that are doctors but honestly so hard to relate when the service you get from the public perspective is so abysmal. GPs are mostly useless and I’ve never had a good experience in a Hospital. The only time you’ll reliably be able to actually talk to a Doctor is when they are on strike. I don’t think paying them more will increase the likelihood of getting any time with them when you need it nor will the NHS improve.

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