Claire M Dee 💙

The pay discrepancy between resident doctors and physician assistants really rankles and is part of the reason they are willing to strike.

It takes 20 years for a London dr to earn more than a London PA 🤯 I asked O3-Pro to analyse cumulative earnings from the start of their courses onwards, accounting for the London weighting. Docs cumulatively out-earn PAs 21 yrs after starting med school, 6 yrs into consultancy

Did you know if an Uber driver works 12 hour shifts around unsociable hours for 7 days a week they can clear £100k/year? Does Jon Kay think we are paying Uber drivers too much?

Although looking at the figures in the Royal Commission in the 1950s, lifting the max pay point and max discretionary award with inflation came in at £320k pensionable so level of senior judge now. Max consultant pay has dropped from inflation adjusted £322k to £179k of which…

The govt knows NHS working conditions are broken & could be improved without extra cost. Yet they ignore this unless we threaten strikes. Calling “improving conditions” a gift is insulting, it’s basic duty This isn’t generosity, it’s overdue responsibility they’ve long neglected

Don't believe it for a minute, if you're a medical director, CD/consultant on the ground, there is no 'we have your backs' for the clinical harm *your* decisions may cause. Triage in medicine is clear, prioritise the sickest who can/must be saved before elective risking both.

Consultant pay vs average and a comparator since austerity 2008. Yet national income is slightly higher than it was after inflation.

Wait …what! Food, training & job security part of negotiations with Resident Drs These are basics for any job, they are not perks, or negotiating tools Imagine saying the opposite! What does this say about the current situation for Resident Drs? @wesstreeting Fix it anyway!

Wes Streeting’s leaked offer letter to the BMA confirms what many of us feared: there is still no serious intent from him to resolve this dispute. 🔴 No offer on pay - despite this being a pay dispute. 🔴 Vague references to “exploring” help with the cost of equipment, meals,…

Strategy for now seems to be to tough it out (& might work if RDC don't get a fresh mandate in 6mths) but by then 18wks will be in tatters. Hopefully HMG's confronting this: govts sometimes fall prone to magical thinking, dreaming that waitlists can still be tackled w/out doctors

OMG‼️ What a clown @wesstreeting is? Did he really think this 💩 looks like a genuine offer? Can’t believe the offer of - -We will buy work equipment for you -We will pay for mandatory exams that allow you to work Shouldn’t they be doing that anyway Surely this is a joke

This just shows how badly doctors are treated by the NHS The health secretary generally believes that covering cost of mandatory feee to do your job, a discount on shit NHS food and a promise to look into you not being unemployed is a good deal.

“depends whether you're aiming to show the pay reduction from its high point, or to give an accurate sense of recent changes generally. We're doing the latter so it doesn't seem appropriately neutral to go out of our way to start exactly at the high point?” Except you are NOT…

Think it’s deeply unfair on the BMA to say that the 08/09 year is “cherry picked”. Their argument is one centred on pay erosion which is when this started. Conversely I don’t think it’s unfair to say the use of Aug 2010 as a baseline is “arbitrary” as it’s when a dataset started…

Well said. This is rough & ready but useful I think!

So a ACP is the same as a ST5 ???

Wes Streeting is copying the same failed Tory playbook - and doctors see right through it. No offer on pay. No plan to move fully qualified doctors from £18.62/hr to £22.67/hr, even over time. Vague “non pay elements” that mean nothing. Student loan forgiveness wasn’t even on…

At today's RDC meeting, we’ve voted to go ahead with strike action. Last week when we met @wesstreeting we were open to finding solutions to restore pay and improve working conditions. Today, we still do not have a credible offer on the table @Melissa_S_Ryan @RossNieuwoudt

I think we also need to be honest about the cost multiplier that is the MDT. Decisions that used to be made by one or two people relatively quickly, now require a wait for a mass meeting. Many, if not most, are dysfunctional. Very few operate as outlined in the original research

Wes Streeting has failed to put forward a credible offer to doctors. He refused to negotiate on pay. He proposed vague non pay elements with no timelines, no guarantees, and no accountability. Despite leaked media briefings, student loan forgiveness was never on the table. He…