Poll: Doctors strike tomorrow, do you support it?

Junior Doctor's Strike, do you support it?

  • Yes

    Votes: 438 59.4%

  • No

    Votes: 299 40.6%
  • Total voters
    737

Dr House

Dr House

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Can we have a poll?

Yes I fully support it.
No go back to work.

What are people thoughts on this? The reality is that doctors will not see a huge pay cut. It's probably only going to be 10 percent but we will end up working a lot more weekends and unsocial hours for less money.

To give people a idea doctors are paid 22.5k for the first year out of med school and around 28k from the second year. That goes up a couple of thousand each year.

On top of this we get extra banding which is normally 20 to 40 percent of your base pay. This is for working weekend, evenings and nights.

It's actually not a bad job. The hours can be long. Today I was supposed to finish at 5 but I'm only on my way home now. Normally if we finish at 5 we are out by 7 ish.

I'm going to work tomorrow. Not because I don't support the strike but because we are really needed there so a couple of us will go in on each strike day.

A bit more info here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-3447595


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So I'm a ST1 ie 3 years experience. This is what I am paid and how much I work.

Base £30k for 40 hours a week
£12k banding for doing a extra 15.5 hours a week on nights weekends and evenings
I I average an extra 10 hours a week unpaid to just get stuff done

My costs this year for working
GMC £500
Insurance £465
ALS course which I have to do £460

Upcoming costs
MRCP Exam £450 or something close
Corse for above exam £1500 - my choice to take it

I have moved house twice due to a change in hospital.

I don't really know but under the new contract I will be paid around £38k but I think we will have less doctors on during the week so I will end up doing a lot more unpaid work.
 
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Don't exactly support it but also don't really think the position doctors have been put in is right. There needs to be a better middle ground for dealing with stuff like this.
 
of all the areas they can make cuts I think stiffing junior doctors is a really bad one... in the grand scheme of things it is a drop in the ocean

They'd be better off increasing funding to HMRC (and IMO perhaps considering paying higher than normal salaries to poach tax specialists from the private sector) and cracking down more on evasion plus investigating and looking at closing down avoidance schemes that take the mickey. They could also start bullying some tax havens... plenty of which are UK territories of some form or another!

And of course carry on with the benefits cuts too. There are clearly inefficiencies in both tax collection and welfare distribution and those are the main areas we need to improve - stiffing junior doctors is a bad move.
 
I don't really understand why it's happening but I doubt so many would strike for a trivial matter.

So yes I support it in my ignorance.
 
Mynight said:
I don't really understand why it's happening but I doubt so many would strike for a trivial matter.

So yes I support it in my ignorance.
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Yeah that is the other thing - I only half understand each side so can't make a fully informed opinion so kind of sitting on the fence.
 
Don't know enough about the situation. But am generally against most strikes.
I don't think the junior doctors have communicated very well. I haven't picked up on the ins and out through osmosis, I'm sure if I read up the details are there.
 
I doubt most who become doctors do it for the money (at least not the ones who stick to the nhs), they do it out of a desire to help people, and if they are pushed to this level of action then there must be good reason for it.

If it's done right with support kept in place for those most genuinely needy (legit a and e patients for example) then i can support it at least in the capacity of not actively opposing it.
 
Rroff said:
Don't exactly support it but also don't really think the position doctors have been put in is right. There needs to be a better middle ground for dealing with stuff like this.
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This. Personaly I don't think doctors/ police/firemen should be allowed to strike as it can put people's life at risk but don't know what other options they could use.

Edit: voted no but it's a close call :)
 
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Nope don't support it now, did to a certain extent but they lost my support by screaming patient health, then go on 3 / 4 strikes while we all now know it's about double bubble on a weekend.
 
I support it. The level of remuneration simply isn't high enough to compensate for the long hours, important nature of the job and the huge investment in education. Those who say "it's a vocational career, you do it for the thrill, not the bucks" should probably request a referral to a neurologist if they still think that argument holds, given that apprentices can earn more in their first year than the figures given in the OP.

Carry on striking.
 
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