briantrumpet
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Science, eh?
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midlandsgrimpeur
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Has RFK Jr. already banned it?
cookiemonster
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Not great news for the time being with a massive medical staff shortage while the new nurses are being trained.
Pblakeney
Guru
Apparently the latest batches are money conscious and more militant.
Don't expect fair sailing in the coming years. To prove Spen correct.
briantrumpet
Squire
If he hasn't already, it'll be on his list. Bit by bit he's denying access to as much as he can. The impact is going to be decades-long, and the largest-scale field experiment in medical history. The graphs are going to show how effective modern medicine is, but by showing how reduction in their use leads to increase in preventable disease and death.
BoldonLad
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Isn't one of the issues with the current Doctors Strike that there are Doctors who cannot get a job in the NHS?
bobzmyunkle
Veteran
Yes. Has the media grilled Wes on this? No
Pblakeney
Guru
This is a situation where there is both a supply and a demand but a bottleneck causing problems.
The real question is how to remove the bottleneck. Probably too difficult to address in soundbites.
First Aspect
Veteran
I thought the doctors were going on strike because of a historic lack of expectation management, i.e. some of them can't get promoted to consultants based on time served? They all have jobs, per se, or they wouldn't be on strike.
Pblakeney
Guru
A recent BMA survey found that 34 per cent of resident doctors expected to have no substantive employment or regular work from August 2025, rising to 52 per cent among those finishing their foundation training. The union argues it is “farcical” that newly qualified doctors are unable to secure posts while NHS waiting lists remain historically high.
BoldonLad
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Well, one solution would be to reduce the number of training places.
Not advocating that by the way, but, it is an option (doubt the Union/BMA would go for it).
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Pblakeney
Guru
See my post above yours.
First Aspect
Veteran
Yeah this is the source https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/major-survey-shows-scale-of-doctor-unemployment-crisis
That's a tricky survey answer to unpick isn't it. What does "expect to" and "next month" mean?
I don't think this means that then unemployment rate in the medical profession is 6x the national rate. I suspect is more points to issues with career progression (a term the BMA uses that is strikingly not an issue with unemployment, or I think that term would be used) and with employment stability (hence reference to locum and short term contracts).
Those are indeed problematic. Whether it warrants strike action for basic pay levels is questionable. Also questionable that the data are being presented to lead the reader to believe that 1/3 doctors become unemployed once they've qualified.
