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While this is a problem. The single largest issue that isn't properly being disscussed (especially during the strikes) is retention. The NHS is a leaking bucke
by was_a_dev 3y ago
While this is a problem. The single largest issue that isn't properly being disscussed (especially during the strikes) is retention.
The NHS is a leaking bucket of highly skilled doctors and nurses.
Anecdotally, my wife is a doctor at a large tertiary hospital. Asking all the completing Foundation junior doctors what their career plans are, 80% of them have obtained either an Australian or New Zealand Visa and were securing jobs abroad.
No one skilled and smart enough wants to stay in the UK.
- poirot2 3y agoCompletely true. Killer stats on this: 1 in 7 U.K. trained doctors work abroad The number of GP training places are up 2000 and number of qualified GPs hasn’t changed due to poor retention. I could go on and on. U.K. medicine is a shitshow of poor pay and poor retention. Even the cheap imported doctors are only staying a short time due to the chaos of the system and better ops back home once NHS training is on your CV
- pcrh 3y agoThe main justifiable complaint by junior doctors is that of being over-worked. Unfortunately the OP and the link above suggest that this is a problem partly self-inflicted by the profession itself. There isn't a great risk of emigration by UK-trained doctors, as evidenced by an over-subscription for training places. Further, OECD data show that when adjusted to average national salaries, the pay scales for clinicians in the UK are competitive with the main destinations, including Australia, Canada and NZ [0]. A large part of the solution would appear to be increasing undergraduate medical education and further professional training slots. This would need increased government funding as well as agreement from professional bodies. [0] https-//www.oecd.org/health/recent-trends-in-international-migration-of-doctors-nurses