NHS<\/a> which hasn\u2019t kept its staff and hasn\u2019t supported its staff is having on patients every day.<\/p>\nI can make a big difference, but I\u2019m in a system that hasn\u2019t supported its doctors or nurses or healthcare workers for years, and now it\u2019s falling apart around my ears, so my day-to-day life is disheartening I think would be the nicest way to put it.<\/p>\n
If I see somebody and I know that they have an issue that might be solved, I have to tell them they\u2019re going to have to live with it for 18 months because we haven\u2019t trained enough people to even get the waiting lists down.<\/p>\n
This month, I\u2019m paying \u00a3462 for the GMC [General Medical Council], which is the regulator; my exams cost \u00a3500 a pop. Some people\u2019s exams cost way more, just to stay in training and keep going. And there have been times where it\u2019s been difficult to afford it.<\/p>\n
The F1s [first year doctors] are the ones who are in the most financial issue, because they\u2019ve just finished medical school, where they will have accrued up to or above \u00a3100,000 in debt. They are then working the first month and they get paid right at the end of it, so they are in dire straits financially at that point, and for that first year, they\u2019re only paid \u00a318.62 an hour. I know F1s who are having to take out loans in order to cover their rent.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m here because the government had the possibility of negotiating. They had the chance to make my life better, and they just keep kicking the can down the road, and at some point everyone needs to stand up and say: \u201cNo, you were elected to make our lives better. You were elected to make everyone\u2019s lives better in this country.\u201d And all that\u2019s happened is a stagnation. I feel now that the only way to get them to listen is to strike.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr Brocha Goode, 30, is a GP trainee in Wigan, Greater Manchester. He graduated from the University of Manchester medical school in 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I think it\u2019s fair to say that since 2019 it\u2019s been a difficult time in the medical profession.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-293104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114919169237821133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}