The junior doctor strike, along with the other strikes, led to the cancellation of 500,000 appointments over the last 5 months, according to the NHS.
Junior doctors are only on a low wage during their first year, after that and when they have more experience their wages go up astronomically, with those who want it working either part time in the private sector or full time in the private sector as a GP. Plus they get huge pensions, and a secure job for life.
Putting pay before patients is disgraceful.
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My husband needs to see a renal specialist urgently but has been told it could be at least 2 months “due to the current circumstances.”
Nobody in any job earns big money to start with, everybody works their way up and junior doctors are no different.
All the fuss we made about people dying from Covid, and this strike by junior doctors could end up killing more …