'If this carries on there'll be no NHS': The doctors so sick of it they're leaving for Australia
Doctors down surgical tools and line the streets outside the hospitals they have spent their burgeoning careers serving. Patients brace themselves for disappointing calls, again postponing long-awaited procedures.
READ MORE: 'I missed birthday parties, I'd dread being asked to drinks - I had no clue how ill I was' Although the poster does not take into account the cost of living in each country, even in isolation the numbers are evidently tempting to NHS staff striking in their droves for improved pay - all the while contending with the UK’s own cost of living crisis.
“After five years of medical school, the most ‘junior’ doctor will come to work for £14 an hour,” one junior doctor told the Manchester Evening News. “But even though they are the most ‘junior’, they still have a lot of responsibility - they may be the first port of call for a really sick patient coming into hospital in the middle of the night, they are still making life or death decisions.
Staffing is already ‘unsafe’ in a health service under more demand than ever, multiple sources have told the M.E.N. And with more medics leaving to work abroad, the rotas could look even more stretched. “If the government chooses to do nothing, the future is looking really quite bleak. People might be tired of hearing that, but it never seems to get any better and that’s what we are seeing on the ground.”
'Conditions here can be awful - people going to their weddings straight after a night shift' Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Dr Naru Narayanan, the president of the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, said: “Junior doctors are beginning to not consider the NHS within their career arc. Pay has a big role in it, in countries like Canada [the starting salary] it doubles.
This pension scheme was overhauled by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s most recent budget in a bid to stop the drain of senior medics from the NHS. The exodus is not limited to doctors leaving for a place in the sun. There are also plenty staying in the UK, but swapping work on the wards for other jobs with better pay and fewer antisocial hours - compounding fears for the overall supply of doctors.
BMA junior doctors committee co-chairs Dr Rob Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi, leading the campaign to restore pay, said: “Is it any surprise that junior doctors are looking for jobs abroad or in other fields when the government is telling them they are worth more than a quarter less than they were in 2008?
For patients, fewer doctors would have a huge impact. Rachel Power, chief executive of the Patients Association, told the M.E.N: "Whatever the reasons are for doctors to leave the NHS, or where they take their skills and expertise, the results are a health service, which is already understaffed, being strained even further than it currently is. This has implications for patient safety.
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