Wes Streeting considera di scrivere una parte dei debiti degli studenti dei medici per evitare lo sciopero
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/17/wes-streeting-considers-writing-off-part-of-doctors-student-debts-to-avert-strike
di acrimoniousone
10 commenti
It’s amazing how older doctors accept shitty salaries, but new ones that know exactly what their salaries are going before getting the jobs are protesting.
The older doctors had minimal help from tech, absolute abuse 24/7, on call before the idea of standing up for silent quitting became mainstream. Bless them.
My usual doctor was in his 60s and didn’t mind staying behind 30mins to do a last min check up. His replacement doesnt give a shit, doesn’t talk, doesn’t care. I’m just number to him.
To be honest I would be more in favour of this. It sounds like NHS salaries need a look at more generally.
I was really against these strikes until I learnt that PAs start at 50k, like wtf. If that’s what your hiring PAs at then yes Doctor’s should be starting higher. That said the reality is I think both should be starting lower. Just like any job you take a pay cut in your early years but its your ceiling that matters and many doctors will be on 6 figures plus a decade before they retire. Earning over 40k straight out of uni is in line with top paying graduate salaries which I think is fair.
Doctors will have the highest amount to pay back over 30 years, for a few years plan 2 folk were at 12% interest, and interest builds the second you take the money not after the course, unlike US/Canada. Plan 2 is what RPI +4% so 8.3% at the moment, which is crazy.
No point writing off some of it, whole thing is a graduate tax on the poor/lower middle class who take the loan.
His big Pharma paymasters are really against paying people what they are worth, why doesn’t he offer them weightloss drugs that happen to be made by his employers like he did with the disabled?
thought the /s was implied but here we are, ill take the down votes
Let’s hope they do this for all those who work in the public sector.
A political and optics win would be to suspend student loan repayment whilst working in the NHS, that’ll effectively be a large pay rise without increasing pay and probably goes down better with the public.
That would certainly provide an effective increase in take home pay. Same should be done for nurses – making them pay student loans was a massive mistake.
Fixes to student loans. No interest for anyone, and teachers, doctors, nurses, or anyone else in crucial public sector work doesn’t have to repay if they work for a public body for a set period, 10-15 years depending on the profession.
This honestly feels like a fair compromise? If they truly cannot afford to raise salaries without causing more issues then lowering or scrapping their student debt seems fair.
The fuck are you charging UK based doctors 10+ years of student fees anyway.
Go back to funding it (and nursing) from central government funds, and providing a bursary while training.
It’d do an enormous amount to reduce the lack of doctors and nurses in the country right away.