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This makes sense in the IS, and the AMA does indeed try to limit the number of graduating medical students. But in the UK most doctors will work for the state w
by dan-robertson 3y ago
This makes sense in the IS, and the AMA does indeed try to limit the number of graduating medical students. But in the UK most doctors will work for the state where they are all on the same pay scale (I think) so a lack of supply shouldn’t be expected to push up the price of labour much.
One reason you could imagine is that the health trusts determine roughly how many student doctors they are able to train and then the government limits graduation rates based on this. But I don’t know if that’s the actual reason, and it could be a half-reason, eg the number was set a long time ago and not updated.
- pipes 3y agoAnd training doctors is very expensive. This is subsidised by the state through capped tuition fees. Plus to train a doctor you need enough doctors for junior doctors to train the junior doctors presumably.
- philwelch 3y agoIn the UK, the NHS primarily exists as a mechanism for rationing medical care. If you compare how much every industrialized country spends on medical care, there’s a very strong correlation with GDP—the richer a country is, the more money they spend on medical care, and the higher proportion of GDP goes to medical care. The UK is uniquely below this trendline, indicating a de facto policy of artificial rationing.