Junior Doctors Strikes

[Minstadave]

NHS probably can't afford the upfront cost of AI if they can't pay their staff properly.

Will be a long way off before AI takes any jobs in the NHS.

NHS IT is so broken and fragmented it'll be the last place to use AI effectively.

 

[malachi]

NHS IT is so broken and fragmented it'll be the last place to use AI effectively.

I heard some systems are still running Windows 98 and XP!

 

[Malevolence]

NHS IT is so broken and fragmented it'll be the last place to use AI effectively.

At our place they've just recently switched over to having prescription charts on CareFlow (ePMA). But they've staggered it, so some wards are using ePMA and others aren't which is fun at times.

 

[PikeyPriest]

At our place they've just recently switched over to having prescription charts on CareFlow (ePMA). But they've staggered it, so some wards are using ePMA and others aren't which is fun at times.

Hmm. We might work in the same trust.

 

[swillsy]

I heard some systems are still running Windows 98 and XP!

I spent 3 months in neonatal last year and majority of the information is on paper- it's madness. Genuinely wouldn't survive in a competitive market.

 

[tamzzy]

NHS probably can't afford the upfront cost of AI if they can't pay their staff properly.

my trust is using AI to report CT heads within the last few weeks
still has to be signed off by a consultant radiologist though
i wonder how long they are going to run the trial for, or how long until they do away with the consultant radiologist sign off

 

[Hagar]

Did anyone notice?

 

[Minstadave]

Did anyone notice?

The strikes? Unlikely because 1/4 billion was spent on covering the 5 days again.

 

[tlrBeta]

Doctors are no worse off than any equivalent professional career in fact better paid than many. My occupation of Civil Engineering, I was professionally qualified. There were high flyers and there were the also rans. I paid my fees to the institution. I negotiated my own salary and bonuses, never went on strike and was happy in a career which was fulfilling, often very long hours in dirty and wet conditions designing and building bridges and tunnels for road and rail infrastructure.
My salary peaked at 60k odd a few years before I retired in 2017 and I live on a pension equivalent to an average family income. Looking at the pay scales for a five year resident doctor in early thirties they seem reasonable to me in comparison today.

Not sure who/what you are comparing against, but the starting salary is below modern graduate schemes, far more stressful and hugely impacting to life if you want to progress.

 

[Malevolence]

Did anyone notice?

Yes, the ED ran quite smoothly again. Well apart from Saturday when it was trauma after trauma after trauma. But that's just one of those days that happens due to the nature of the place.

 

[casper_uk]

my trust is using AI to report CT heads within the last few weeks
still has to be signed off by a consultant radiologist though
i wonder how long they are going to run the trial for, or how long until they do away with the consultant radiologist sign off

It's happening in Histology!