This doctor shared her payslip to show the stark reality NHS doctors face.
Fully qualified. Working exhausting 48 hour weeks: nights, evenings, weekends. Regularly uprooted from family, friends and support networks.
All to earn just Β£17.56 an hour.
Thatβs 21% less in real terms than doctors earned in 2008, even though workloads and pressures have only increased.
Doctors also now earn nearly Β£10,000 less than physician assistants; despite having more training, greater responsibility, and higher risk.
Doctors are exhausted, demoralised, and leaving the NHS. Theyβve had enough.
Theyβre simply asking to move from Β£17.56/hr to Β£22.67/hr; and not even all at once
@wesstreeting.
To protect the NHS, we need to retain and value the doctors who work in it.