9️⃣ Why the strikes matter
This isn’t about “money-hungry doctors.”
It’s about:
•Longer training time
•Lower pay at every stage
•Fewer training posts than qualified applicants
•No automatic progression after completing training
•Final salaries that lag their international peers by 40–65 percent
If you designed a system to drive doctors abroad, you would build exactly this one.
The strikes are the predictable outcome of a structure that relies on exploiting junior doctors to keep the NHS running.
Breastfeeding promotion often ignores the health, both physical and mental, of the women doing the breastfeeding. Even organizations like the AAP are guilt of this. Need an example? No problem, just keep reading this thread.
I usually hate 'reply all' emails.
However, this one was sent in reply to an email to 244 doctors asking them to pick up locum shifts during the strikes and I love it! ✊
@TheBMA#PayRestoration#JuniorDoctorsStrike
Interviewer: "Retention is the key word here, isn't it? Surely if you pay staff... what they deserve, then that will help with retention. That's not part of the plan, is it?"
The National Medical Director of NHS England: "No, its not part of the plan"
Am I the only one that sees a problem with working 8-9 hours a day and then going home to having about 4 hours to yourself which includes getting ready for the next day??? This is not life…
We want to send a message to our members and health care workers, as well as others affected by this decision, reaffirming our commitment to continue the fight for the recognition of abortion care as essential healthcare and the need for it to be decriminalised everywhere. (2/2)
Here is how you imagine the 150k lives lost to Covid.
It’s just taken me 10 mins to walk the half kilometre length of the national @CovidMemorialUK wall, directly opposite parliament.
Each heart represents one of those 150k lost, those families changed forever.
Please share 💔
This is a great article - food shortages and draconian lockdowns are clearly not the way forward. But also - @David_Culver Chairman has my ♥️. Here’s hoping no inconvenience befalls this cutie 🐶
.@David_Culver shares his experience of the lockdown in Shanghai, a city of 25 million people at the center of China's efforts to stamp out the country's largest ever Covid outbreak. https://t.co/rUCr38U4Zi
Sanitary towels and tampons cost an arm and a leg sometimes but I’ve never come across a single woman who wasn’t willing without question to give me one or even two or three when I needed