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Dimple said:
So why do Nurses get it paid for but you don't?
What is different about them?
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As a medical student we got a bursary in the last three years of university which paid course fees (1k a year, you got more if means tested iirc). I didn't ever really understand why it was only the clinical years.
 
Minstadave said:
Crappy situation to be in. You're invested in a job that you've no idea what it will entail when you finally get out of Uni heavily in debt.

You'll be working for a monopoly employer who has cut your pension and increased your contributions, frozen the sub-inflation pay increment and is trying to enforce increased hours, remove working hours protection and wants more weekend working without paying for it.

The next few weeks will be very interesting, I can't see Hunt having a career left at the end of it personally but we'll see.
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Yes, very soul destroying - it's so worrying to know that we're entering such a turmoil.

Dimple said:
So why do Nurses get it paid for but you don't?
What is different about them?
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Not a clue!

Minstadave said:
As a medical student we got a bursary in the last three years of university which paid course fees (1k a year, you got more if means tested iirc). I didn't ever really understand why it was only the clinical years.
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I get my 5th year fees (9k) paid for by the NHS. Just that.
 
shadow_boxer said:
Had my final year of med school fees paid, thankfully at that stage tuition fees were only £1K. Dread to think how much debt medics are graduating with nowadays.
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For those not dependent on parents and rely on student/maintenance loan... something like 70-75k
 
OldCoals said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35053845

Going well for Mr Hunt.
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Every Monday for the last month when I've gone into theatres to pre-op my patients for their elective surgeries. I then go to the coffee room and sit around with about 50 other staff until midday while bed managers try and find beds for those patients who will need to stay. Multiplied across the country, Monday morning will be generating millions of waste every hour that we're not operating. It's ridiculous and entirely avoidable, unfortunately our leaders don't think strategically and indeed those before them didn't either.

And... it's not even really winter yet!
 
Biggest NHS 'market' deal to date collapses - what now?
A highly controversial new style of contract for nearly a billion pounds worth of older people's healthcare in the East of England has collapsed - but will anyone learn the right lessons?

One of the largest NHS ‘market’ contracts to date collapsed this month. The £800million (originally £1 billion) deal to provide NHS care for older people in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough failed after only 8 months, deemed “financially unsustainable”.
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Another great example of the privatised NHS working well - £1 million wasted on the tendering process only for the deal to go sour after 8 months. :mad:
 
The hospital I'm currently placed at have agreed all juniors apart from 'emergency cover' can strike. I'll visit the picket line tomorrow
 
Will be attending the picket line a little later today. Never realised that there were so strict rules about how many people could be in attendance at anytime. Have had a "book" a slot..To be fair our department has actually pretty good cover today as the locums are still at work as usual. Good luck to everyone.
 
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