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> If you want more "growth" getting a young person into (meaningful) work would generate more short term growth and vastly more long term growth. Doubling univ
by michaelt 4y ago
> If you want more "growth" getting a young person into (meaningful) work would generate more short term growth and vastly more long term growth.
Doubling university places for medicine would be a very sensible move - but it'll take ~7 years before all the new medics are ready to practice. That's two elections in the future.
On the other hand, if you can tempt a retired doctor back into practice? They'll be treating people before the next election starts.
Of course, I doubt it'll work - wasn't the retired-doctors silver bullet already fired, during the pandemic?
- pkaye 4y agoI've heard their pension system penalizes older doctors with more taxes once they accumulate enough years so its better to retire at that point. The other thing is junior doctors can't progress forward in their training and career as there is limited training slots for specialization. So they end up logjammed being in the low rung doing scutwork at little pay. Also doctors pay has not kept up with inflation for the last decade. Right now what they really want is full pay restoration but the government isn't budging. There is a Reddit subreddit where UK jr doctors chat about this stuff and its very enlightening.
- clocot 4y ago[dead]