Once a doctor gets his Bachelor of Medicine or Bachelor of Surgery Degree, one either choses to work in a GP practice or in a hospital.
The graduate can decide to train as a GP, or to train in a specialty to become a Consultant, or just work as a doctor or take a further degree or do a bit of both. To become a GP, one needs five years’ on the job training; for a consultant, one needs eight years’ experience.
So during all these five or eight years, one is called a “Junior Doctor” and one’s remuneration can progress from about £30,000 to £70,000 a year.
On a daily basis, these 53,000 doctors give instructions to nursing and midwifery staff of 477,000; professional and technical staff of 159,000; admin and clerical staff of 285,000; and domestic ancillary staff of 198,000 based upon 2011 NHS staff figures.
Thus their planned all out strike from 26 to 28 April will probably make idle about 50% of the total NHS staff of 1,230,000 during this strike period.
Between 2001/02 and 2011/12, UK NHS Healthcare Expenditure rose from 6.3% of GDP to 8.8%; but private sector expenditure remained the same at 1.2%. Let Junior Doctors go private.
Nagindas Khajuria
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