GPs have warned patients to stay away until the new year because of striking doctors.
Surgeries around England have said they can only prioritise urgent cases with just four working days unaffected by strikes over three weeks.
As surgeries closed for Christmas on Friday night, patients were told that routine appointments with family doctors are off the table until at least the new year.
GPs deal with stuff that the NHS doesn’t, don’t they? So the triage can still take place, no?
Junior doctors who are training to become family doctors make up more than one in four of the GP workforce, accounting for 10,000 of the 37,000 GPs in England.
Aaah.
sick of the [GPs] demanding a 35 per cent pay rise
That’s the one where the union is using RPI not CPI to measure past inflation……
I’m sure the strikes are because of that which cannot be said; diversity advisers earning £127,000 pa for nothing more arduous than tapping one of 3 (oops, it’s the NHS, so maybe 32) keys on the keyboard. 3 hours training on learning how to read the leaflet, 6 hours in front of the computer. No stress. No years of medical training. No overtime. Drink what you want, when you want.
You, a doctor, are frazzled 24/7, bossed around by morons, sworn at by patients and their relatives and friends, have to make life and death decisions, all for £100,000 pa.
GPs have to comply with rules and regs that would take up 24.75 hours a day if they didn’t fake it, in addition to all of the above.
The incentive is for GPs to sign up bazillions of patients and then never see any of them. They’ve become extremely good at it.
Funny how the solution to all GP issues is for them to see fewer patients
The NHS would be so much more efficient if it wasn’t for the darned patients cluttering up the place and getting in the way of modern management
A friend recently remarked on how her GP diagnosed a nasty illness just by looking at her. “A lovely chap, too; from Myanmar. Apparently this disease is common there.”
I am perfectly happy that we recruited a once-in-a-blue-moon GP from Myanmar. I am more than happy that he is a lovely chap.
What I don’t like at all is the unscreened, illegal immigration by pretend refugees and asylum seekers.
If they want to earn more, perhaps they could – I dunno – work more?
“Apparently this disease is common there.”
Several other once rarely seen diseases seem to be getting more common here.
It’s a puzzler.
The important question is this. Compared to the average wage do junior doctors get paid more or less than in the past? I guess it is very similar – otherwise they would have pointed it out.
About a year ago I did some initial stats, never finished it, but the conclusion seemed to be: doctors’ pay was bumped to increasing faster than everybody else’s pay was increasing, then this faster-then-everybody-else stopped so they were increasing the same as the plebs. They’re annoyed and want to go back to increasing faster than other people, plus want an additional jump to compensate for when their pay went up “only” by the same amount as everybody else.
here we are. Underlying source=ONS. I was collating month-by-month data, but it was taking ages, so I did an initial year-by-year average, so the figures are a little bit fuzzy.
You can see that they gradually got further and further ahead of everybody else, peaking at 10% ahead of everybody else by 2013. Since then they’ve dropped to only being 0.17% ahead of everybody else. boo hoo! How *DARE* we not be miles ahead. PAY US MOAR!!!
They are not *behind* everybody else, just not accelerating away from everybody else fast enough.