Junior Doctors Strikes

Minstadave said:
NHS IT is so broken and fragmented it'll be the last place to use AI effectively.
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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.
 
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malachi said:
NHS probably can't afford the upfront cost of AI if they can't pay their staff properly.
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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 said:
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.
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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.
 
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tamzzy said:
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
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It's happening in Histology!
 
93% of resident doctors who voted in a ballot voted in favour of further action (26 696 of 28 598). Turnout for the ballot was 53%, with 54 432 resident doctors in total eligible to vote.

Number of total resident doctors is perhaps hard to say but I’ve seen in region of 71-79k so probably about 1/3 of all resident doctors is not far off
 
They are only eligible to vote If members though. And not voting either as abstaining or just not getting round to it certainly can’t be considered 100% against the vote though. By most actions that’s a pretty decent turnout
 
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