If a pipe gets blocked in your house overnight and causes an emergency, you’d pay £75 an hour to an emergency plumber to diagnose and fix it. If one of the arteries going to your heart gets blocked and causes an emergency overnight, the doctor that comes to fix it is paid £26

Congratulations to Wes Streeting. We have written today offering to work with you to get the NHS back on its feet. Here are some of the most pressing issues NHS staff and our patients need you to tackle in the coming months. THREAD (1/7) x.com/10DowningStree…

26-year-old Kyle Clifford is being hunted by police. It’s a fast moving situation and there’s a lot we don’t know. But there is one thing that we DO know. And it’s depressingly, devastatingly familiar. Three woman are dead. They were killed in their home. A mum, she was 61, and

Let me help with some calculations: 1) 40hrs a week minimum wage pay £24k a year 2) 40 hrs F1 contract £32k a year Interest only payment on loan of £100k £7,300 GMC and Indemnity £500 ALS £350 Relocation cost £250 Opportunity cost of 5 years - priceless So a not

🧵I’m reading lots of very well constructed threads by women trying to explain to men why crashing any conversation about male violence against women with “#NOTALLMEN” is unhelpful and exhausting… Trouble is, the kind of guys who leap in with #notallmen (and I used to be one)…

I think £32k is a terrible salary in 2024. It shows how wages have stagnated for over a decade, economic growth has been poor, and prices continue to soar. We’ve be conditioned to think anything above £30k is a good salary, it simply is not

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The results are in: we have a clear mandate to strike. More than 90% of you who voted in our ballot, voted YES. You’ve made it clear: enough is enough. Our fight for full #PayRestoration for resident doctors in England continues.

“If you don’t like it get a new job!!” “If you knew the pay (which has eroded) and didn’t like it then don’t be a doctor!” “Why can’t I get a doctors appointment” “Why am I sat in A&e for 24h” “Doctors are all the same and born with a silver spoon” - the same person

One minute: “If you don’t like the pay, leave" “You knew the salary when you started - don't complain.” The next: "Why can’t I get a GP appointment?” “A&E was a 12-hour wait!” "How dare you go to Australia!" You don't value something until you need it. And it's gone.

Doctors: Can you fix 15 years of pay erosion so we can keep treating patients? Wes: No. But I’ll improve your “working conditions.” You mean the hospitals where: – There are no desks or rest spaces – Staff rooms are storage closets – No training jobs after years of exams – PAs

A doctor caring for you at 7pm in A&E earns just £18.62/hr They’re asking to move to £22.67/hr (not even all at once) to undo years of pay erosion. Wes Streeting could stop the strikes by offering a credible path to restore drs pay. The choice is his. bbc.com/news/articles/…

It's always weird to see these bizarre claims that the committee is "hard left" or "corbynistas". This is a wave of young people aged typically between 23-35 who see Broken Britain for what it is. Raising rent, raising house prices, raising energy prices, raising leisure

When I was a newly qualified doctor in 2017, a typical hour on call might involve: – Being bleeped non stop to prescribe fluids or meds – Managing sepsis, post-op bleeds, heart attacks, strokes – Starting resuscitation solo while the arrest team rushed in – Breaking bad news and

A dr on TikTok posted her payslip saying she earned £2.5k after tax and the comments?? One said she’s being greedy and another said £2.5k is a lot of money.

As BMA Deputy Chair Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈 rightly says, moving a fully qualified doctor from £18.62/hr to £22.67/hr is entirely reasonable; especially over a few years. These doctors make critical decisions every single day. But Wes Streeting doesn’t think they’re worth even that.

Doctors currently earn £18.62 an hour, they are asking for £22.67 an hour. Their assistants get paid £24.45 an hour. How can Wes Streeting defend paying doctors less than their assistants?