Il sostegno pubblico per gli scioperi dei medici residenti è crollata in vista della nuova azione industriale

Over the years of infantilisation, degradation of quality of patient care and moral injury –  my support for the publics health service has also collapsed to a new low, of which oozes my jaded disregard for public opinion. 

Enjoy the strikes.

The average UK worker has had wages stagnate since 2008, they’re only about 3% higher now. That’s rightly cited as an economic catastrophe

Doctors have had pay cut by 22%. They just want the same economic disaster as the average worker

In any case – it’s not a zero sum game. We should be lifting each other up in demanding a reversal of paycuts. Good on doctors for standing up for their worth. Other workers should do the same, instead of shitting on the few groups of workers who have organised to campaign again shite pay

If you want an NHS, you probably need to pay workers enough that they don’t literally down tools

It’s the inability (unless one is an OAP) to even get an in-person GP appointment (when it matters) that rubs lot of people the wrong way.

Pay doctors what they deserve, because if my life, or the life of a family member is in the hands of a doctor, I dont want them to be under-paid, disheartened and unmotivated.

what about the loans (NHS trusts) that were taken out, and refreshed with shockingly poor terms, that the government is happy to support. it’s a fucking scandal, and nothing is said…

Its telling how there is never any salary numbers beyond percentages in these discussions.

They earn a substantial amount. Year 1: £38,831. Year 2: £44,439. Year 3: £52,656 to £73,992.
Overtime, anti social hours, etc are paid on top of these base rates.
The average pay across all resident doctors is £54,300 base.
These are people who have limited to no experience and are still very much learning.

I know they like to trumpet their own self importance taught to them at their elitist schools, but take away farmers and you have no food, take away builders and you have no house, take away engineers and you have the 1700s…lots of professions are important

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Everyone has been fucked since 2008. Paying resident doctors extra whilst preserving strong pensions and screwing over the private sector that keeps the country afloat is wrong.

Cut the fat first. Say no to those who want work and the elderly who didn’t think to save. Once those savings are in hand then we can pay the doctor’s a bit more.

This reporting is laying the groundwork to try and stop the nurses striking. Who have also been screwed over for the past 14 years. They are about to ballot on accepting a pay cut this year (sorry, ‘below inflation pay rise’)

It’s why so many of us have left the career. And now hospital trusts can’t afford to replace us with the even more poorly paid newly qualified nurses.

It’s all fucked, but people kept voting Tory.

Not going to be gaslit into turning against the welfare of people saving lives.

Every single interview and article I’ve read on this has been absolutely slating Doctors, a recent Jeremy Vine interview was a straight up 3 against 1 hit-job, which is in stark contrast to much of the media that came out when the conservatives were in power which backed them.

Look at it this way, you’re the Labour party, you’ve just seen the conservatives attempt to flat out deny doctors their pay increase, you’ve seen doctors strike with fervour, and you’ve seen the massive public support for them and the ensuing political damage those strikes did to the conservatives. You also want to deny them their pay increase, but you don’t want that political damage as you’re already broadly disliked, so what do you do?

You get your mates in the media to change public perception, you vilify doctors, you make them seem greedy, unjustified and out of touch, you make them responsible for waiting lists, the financial situation in the NHS, accidents, poor quality care, etc, so public support shifts and you denying them doesn’t cost you votes.