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[Daniel Greaves @DrDanGreaves]

@Justobserv76205 @trentconsultant It isn't just true for me.

Medicine in the UK is an underpaid profession. Note that it doesn't mean we are poorly paid, but we are underpaid. Every country in the Anglosphere pays more and due to the monopsony nature of our employment they have to be our comparators.

[Brighton & Hove Albion @OfficialBHAFC]

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[Philip Banfield 💙 @DrPhilBanfield]

Graduate medical student to me this week, “by the time I qualify, my debt will be over quarter of a million pounds”. Get rid of the RPI laden costs of becoming a doctor @10DowningStreet to widen access. Then value them properly to make better progress with @TheBMA @BMAResidents?

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

If you want more doctors from working class homes @wesstreeting you need to make medicine an attractive career.

Graduating with £100,000+ of student debt, then earning 40% less than your assistant is not a great incentive.

[Henry Anderson @HMAnderson39]

Tim Meek, of Assoc of Anaesthetists, says paper records were faster than current NHS tech.

Says it used to take three mins to go through a set of paper notes.

"It now might take 10 minutes to scroll through maybe four or five different apps on a slow laptop"

#hcf25 #Lab25

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Calling all SAS doctors and Consultants in England – there's still time to vote in our indicative ballots.

Our Chair of Council @thomasdolphin shares why it’s important to make your voice heard.

✅ https://t.co/RmAByXNzHF
✅ https://t.co/W99OMwJxWC

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

Pleased that as a direct result of lobbying HMT, DHSC, BSA & HMRC by @BMA_Pensions, they have formally relaxed the mandatory scheme pays deadline for McCloud so that is now 6th July 2027 recognising the failures by the schemes to fulful their obligations in regards to RPSS

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

IMPORTANT REMINDER: In England & Wales your annual benefit or "Total Reward" statement will update mid August. Although its not a good document IMHO (and the new style post August update is *even worse* IMHO), its all you have, and the new one will replace the old one. (and if there is no new one for you or its blank, it might also replace the old one, so you will have nothing). Be sure to download it and keep it safe / email it to your personal email etc EVERY YEAR
https://t.co/luVOzCzdfj

Pls share/RT

[Mike Henley 🤨 @trentconsultant]

People churn out more and more of this stuff without it seems any restriction. Meanwhile no one wants to pay for the time spent doing it. The 2.5 SPA in the contract came in *before* appraisal and when mandatory training was a fire lecture and CPR once every three years! Not much causes me more misery than the second image.

[Mike Henley 🤨 @trentconsultant]

Consultants, your pay went up by 4% despite the huge erosion you e suffered compared to the average worker and competitor professions/countries. Vote now in the indicative survey!!!! Also changes to SPA, PA duration, pension access, what is pensionable and more.

[Dr Shivam Sharma @DocShivSharma]

There has to be movement from the government on pay.

Doctors have a clear mandate for pay restoration.

The jury is back, and the verdict is in: a multi-year deal to deliver pay restoration.

This is the main way to retain staff and start fixing the NHS.
https://t.co/dJY6u744G2

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

We underfund students at medical school, forcing some to drive Ubers just to get by.

They graduate thousands in debt, then start NHS work as a doctor on £18.62/hr.

Poor funding drives drs out. Fair student finance & pay restoration is how we keep them.
https://t.co/itIEu0pFgS

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Physician assistants are paid nearly £10,000 more than fully qualified doctors.

Even *with* full pay restoration, doctors would earn less than their own assistants.

£22.67/hr for a doctor isn’t just fair, it’s a bargain for the level of skill and responsibility they have.

[James Steen @BMA_James_Steen]

Resident Doctors Are "Not Asking For Enough"

@ASLEFunion - thank you for your solidarity ✊🏼

Reminder:

Doctors are merely seeking the reversal of deep, deep pay cuts, and they’re happy for that restoration to occur over a number of years.

https://t.co/fenRACrUlr

[James @K1N3RGY]

At some point in your life, you will need a Doctor.

Doctors should not be taken for granted, pay them what they deserve

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Doctors were promised a journey to pay restoration by @wesstreeting.

One year later, the latest uplift delays pay restoration by 20 years and even last year’s non pay reforms haven’t been delivered.

That’s not a journey, it’s a broken promise from this Government.

[🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦 @DrOKaneAgain]

Petulant Health Secretary ⁦@wesstreeting⁩ huffs & puffs.

But he seems to forget that the dispute is about pay, and the strike happened because he refused to discuss it.

⁦@BMAResidents⁩ aren’t going away till there is full pay restoration. https://t.co/PLSHqw6wFb

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Wes Streeting could’ve ended this dispute weeks ago by putting forward a credible offer.

Instead, he refused to meaningfully negotiate.

We’re asking for a doctor on £18.62/hr to move to £22.67/hr over time.

That’s a fair ask for a highly skilled professional.

[Dr Shivam Sharma @DocShivSharma]

£22.67/hr is a bargain for a doctor.

Why does Mr Streeting want to go to "war" over this?

Doctors aren’t asking for any "war."

We are asking for pay restoration, phased in over time.

This is surely just common sense.
https://t.co/zhTsmYJF08

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

“There do not have to be any strikes. Streeting can solve this dispute.”

@ERunswickBMA speaks to @BBCBreakfast this morning following five days of strikes for #PayRestoration.