It’s not classed as a debt Boot, but a graduate contribution system - and the amount they repay per year is very low:
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I think rather than getting a pay rise, they should not be subject to tuition fees and incurring massive debts to study. Giving them a 30% pay rise is most likely the cheaper option.
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It’s about time reverse capitalism was applied, lets scale everything down.
I would agree with that proposal if all those benefiting agree to sign up to a minimum of 7 year’s service before moving out of the NHS.
yes of course there should be some loyalty or they have to pay the fees. I also think that newly qualified doctors who are working now should have a fees amnesty. That would be a better solution than giving everyone a 30% raise. I’m sure it would encourage more applicants to medical school. Key specialised professions should not have to pay through the nose for degrees at this time of labour shortages.
Junior doctors get millions of £££ worth of free training. They should pay to back over their career while working part time in the private sector, not seeing patients and wasting tax payers money.
If they want to threaten us to go and work in Australia under “better conditions” then fine but don’t get upset when we change the NHS to be like the Australian system. As usual they want it both ways - the NHS which is crap wages, crap hours, and over worked, under funded is strangely the “envy of the world” and a shrine to patient healthcare and the same time.
Scrap it.
Its crap.
I do believe it. My friend’s daughter is a consultant anaesthetist and she is always saying how well off she is. Her husband has never had to work as they have 3 children so he was more than happy to be house husband.
Another friend has twin daughters, both doctors. One as a GP and the other a hospital consultant. They both have children, huge houses in posh areas and one has a Holiday home in France, the other in this country. She showed me photos and it’s like a mini stately home …… and that’s just the second home!
Do they deserve 30%.
In a word … No.
They’re investing in a profession with longterm accumalative rewards. By the time they’re in their 40s and 50s they’re on lucrative salaries … by the time they are late 50’s and doubtless jobbing in private practice around their NHS committments ( to retain perks such as generous pensions) … they are hauling in the real big money.
A demand for a 30% rise will see an increase of 20k a year, or about £400 a week for the average doctor … that’s a pretty soul destroying amount for everyone else to comprehend when they have to struggle along and make tough decisions on affordability and doing without.
It’s all cobblers of course.
please explain
most of not everyone else are not making life or death decisions though. Drs are under a great deal of stress because most often the buck stops with them. They should be rewarded, I just don’t think it’s affordable in the current financial climate. We have so many values back to front. Management consultants on a gravy train are paid a fortune, no doubt also to determine how to approach the junior doctor situation.
Working in the NHS they get trained for free - they do not have to pay for it. That training is worth millions.