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Dr Andrew Meyerson explains why doctors are striking, still 20% below 2008 salaries, and Labour not are training enough doctors The Conservatives over 14 years cut £400 billion investment from the NHS which took one of the world's leading health services and crumbled it Dr Meyerson explains this is... show more

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Left: Wes Streeting launches a scathing attack on doctors after they vote to strike, his rant is full of half truths and outright lies Right: Dr Andrew Meyerson who is an A&E doctor explains what the actual problems are, and the reasons behind the strike You can either trust the politician, or the person who will help you when you fall ill or have an injury My vote is for Dr Andrew Meyerson and every other doctor out there 👍

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Farrukh

68,100 views • 8 months ago

While you wait hours to be seen in A&E and weeks for a GP appointment, NHS doctors are being forced into unemployment. This year, 40,000 doctors applied for 10,000 training jobs. Without these training jobs, doctors cannot progress to become the GPs and Consultants the NHS desperately needs. What the public isn’t told is that these training jobs are deliberately capped by the Government. Catastrophic workforce planning has created a farcical situation; patients are crying out to see a doctor, while thousands of fully trained doctors are locked out of the NHS. This year, 14 doctors competed for every single A&E training job. Five doctors competed for every GP training job. The NHS is turning away dedicated, talented doctors at the door. This is one of the reasons resident doctors went out on strike and why we are reballoting. We are training doctors at enormous personal cost; years of study, debt, night shifts, missed family moments, and then telling them there is no place for them in the NHS. This is not just a workforce failure. It is a moral one.

While you wait hours to be seen in A&E and weeks for a GP appointment, NHS doctors are being forced into unemployment. This year, 40,000 doctors applied for 10,000 training jobs. Without these training jobs, doctors cannot progress to become the GPs and Consultants the NHS desperately needs. What the public isn’t told is that these training jobs are deliberately capped by the Government. Catastrophic workforce planning has created a farcical situation; patients are crying out to see a doctor, while thousands of fully trained doctors are locked out of the NHS. This year, 14 doctors competed for every single A&E training job. Five doctors competed for every GP training job. The NHS is turning away dedicated, talented doctors at the door. This is one of the reasons resident doctors went out on strike and why we are reballoting. We are training doctors at enormous personal cost; years of study, debt, night shifts, missed family moments, and then telling them there is no place for them in the NHS. This is not just a workforce failure. It is a moral one.

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12,831 views • 8 months ago

Doctors in England are now facing unemployment because of decisions being made in Westminster. This year, 30,000 doctors applied for just 10,000 NHS training jobs. Doctors need these posts to become the Consultants and GPs the NHS is crying out for; yet the Government has capped the number of places. The result? Thousands of hardworking, highly trained doctors pushed aside, even after years of hard work and sacrifice. Wes Streeting’s suggestion of bringing forward 1,000 extra training places for this year doesn’t even scratch the surface of a crisis this deep. This is one of the reasons why resident doctors will be back out on strike in December; and why we’re reballoting. Unemployed NHS doctors, while patients sometimes wait years for care. A system this broken won’t fix itself, so doctors are standing up to fix it.

Doctors in England are now facing unemployment because of decisions being made in Westminster. This year, 30,000 doctors applied for just 10,000 NHS training jobs. Doctors need these posts to become the Consultants and GPs the NHS is crying out for; yet the Government has capped the number of places. The result? Thousands of hardworking, highly trained doctors pushed aside, even after years of hard work and sacrifice. Wes Streeting’s suggestion of bringing forward 1,000 extra training places for this year doesn’t even scratch the surface of a crisis this deep. This is one of the reasons why resident doctors will be back out on strike in December; and why we’re reballoting. Unemployed NHS doctors, while patients sometimes wait years for care. A system this broken won’t fix itself, so doctors are standing up to fix it.

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103,058 views • 8 months ago

While you wait weeks to see a GP, NHS doctors in England are being forced into unemployment; blocked by Government caps that stop them from furthering their training to become specialist Consultants/GPs. This year, there were around 30,000 doctors applying for 10,000 speciality training places. That means thousands of capable doctors ready to serve the public and the NHS are being turned away. Every rejected doctor is a lost opportunity to cut waiting lists, staff wards safely and bring the NHS back from crisis. And Wes Streeting’s response? Just 2,000 extra speciality training places over 3 years. That will not fix the doctor unemployment crisis in England. It will continue to leave patients waiting months for care and will push doctors out of the NHS altogether. This is one of the reasons why NHS resident doctors are going back out on strike. Doctors want to work. Patients want care. It’s the Government that’s standing in the way. #EndTrainingCrisis

While you wait weeks to see a GP, NHS doctors in England are being forced into unemployment; blocked by Government caps that stop them from furthering their training to become specialist Consultants/GPs. This year, there were around 30,000 doctors applying for 10,000 speciality training places. That means thousands of capable doctors ready to serve the public and the NHS are being turned away. Every rejected doctor is a lost opportunity to cut waiting lists, staff wards safely and bring the NHS back from crisis. And Wes Streeting’s response? Just 2,000 extra speciality training places over 3 years. That will not fix the doctor unemployment crisis in England. It will continue to leave patients waiting months for care and will push doctors out of the NHS altogether. This is one of the reasons why NHS resident doctors are going back out on strike. Doctors want to work. Patients want care. It’s the Government that’s standing in the way. #EndTrainingCrisis

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41,572 views • 9 months ago

Hours waiting in A&E. Weeks for a GP appointment. Yet thousands of NHS doctors ready to help the public are being locked out of the system. Doctors need training jobs to qualify as Consultants and GPs; but the Government has capped the available number, creating a bottleneck that leaves doctors unemployed and patients waiting longer. This year there were 30,000 doctors applying for 10,000 NHS training posts. That’s the scale of the crisis Westminster won’t talk about. With no credible solution from Wes Streeting, this jobs crisis is one of the reasons Resident Doctors will be striking from the 17th of December. Patients need doctors. Doctors need jobs. The Government needs to act.

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26,266 views • 8 months ago

"I'll do the 72 hour weeks. I will do the grind. But I can't because there's no job for me to do that." Resident Doctors Chair, Jack Fletcher Jack Fletcher explains to The BMJ why doctors are striking this December

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36,407 views • 8 months ago

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*Both Labour and Conservatives are making doctors looks like the bad guys for wanting the same salary in real terms in 2008* Dr Tom Dolphin, "Senior doctors are covering for the absent Resident doctors, people who need emergency care should be getting that" Edwina Currie shakes her head in disapproval because Dr Dolphin just crushed her complaint about the strikes Dr Tom Dolphin, "Doctors start at £18.62 an hour" Edwina Currie, "Not true, that is absolutely not true" Dr Tom Dolphin, "It is Edwina, it is true" Edwina Currie, "You are better paid than almost all the people you will be looking after.. You should have a heart, you're supposed to be compassionate people" Dr Tom Dolphin, "It's not about greed its about making sure we have a workforce going forward.. Look at all the doctors going overseas, where doctors are valued properly, their salaries are 2-3x what they are in the UK" "All we're asking for is for our pay to be the same value as it was in 2008"

Both Labour and Conservatives are making doctors looks like the bad guys for wanting the same salary in real terms in 2008 Dr Tom Dolphin, "Senior doctors are covering for the absent Resident doctors, people who need emergency care should be getting that" Edwina Currie shakes her head in disapproval because Dr Dolphin just crushed her complaint about the strikes Dr Tom Dolphin, "Doctors start at £18.62 an hour" Edwina Currie, "Not true, that is absolutely not true" Dr Tom Dolphin, "It is Edwina, it is true" Edwina Currie, "You are better paid than almost all the people you will be looking after.. You should have a heart, you're supposed to be compassionate people" Dr Tom Dolphin, "It's not about greed its about making sure we have a workforce going forward.. Look at all the doctors going overseas, where doctors are valued properly, their salaries are 2-3x what they are in the UK" "All we're asking for is for our pay to be the same value as it was in 2008"

Farrukh

16,282 views • 1 year ago

Fully qualified foundation year one doctors, many with over £100,000 of student debt, start work on £18.62 an hour. £18.62/hr to provide life saving care. Doctors are asking for pay restoration; a move to £22.67/hr over time to return pay to where it was before years of erosion. Yet Wes Streeting has called this unreasonable and has recommended another real terms pay cut for doctors this April. At the same time, qualified doctors are being left unemployed because there aren’t enough jobs. Doctors are being pushed out of the NHS altogether; with more doctors leaving in 2024 than in the entire previous decade. Pay erosion. Job shortages. Doctors leaving. That is why resident doctors are reballoting. Resident doctors in England: you have hours left to request a replacement ballot: 👉 If you already have your ballot, post it back with a YES vote for jobs and pay by 26th January. This is the moment to stand up for the profession.

Fully qualified foundation year one doctors, many with over £100,000 of student debt, start work on £18.62 an hour. £18.62/hr to provide life saving care. Doctors are asking for pay restoration; a move to £22.67/hr over time to return pay to where it was before years of erosion. Yet Wes Streeting has called this unreasonable and has recommended another real terms pay cut for doctors this April. At the same time, qualified doctors are being left unemployed because there aren’t enough jobs. Doctors are being pushed out of the NHS altogether; with more doctors leaving in 2024 than in the entire previous decade. Pay erosion. Job shortages. Doctors leaving. That is why resident doctors are reballoting. Resident doctors in England: you have hours left to request a replacement ballot: 👉 If you already have your ballot, post it back with a YES vote for jobs and pay by 26th January. This is the moment to stand up for the profession.

Dr Haseena Wazir

27,608 views • 7 months ago

I’m a resident doctor and I’ll be going out on strike from April 7th. Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer have removed 1,000 extra NHS specialist training jobs; a decision that means fewer potential consultants and GPs, and potentially longer waits for patients in the future. This not only harms doctors, it harms the public and the NHS as a whole. But this isn’t just about those 1,000 posts. It’s also about the bigger picture and what it symbolises. Doctors’ pay has been cut in real terms for over a decade, and resident doctors are still earning 21% less in real terms than a doctor in 2008. There are now far more doctors than speciality training posts, so thousands of doctors can’t progress in their careers to become specialists even though the NHS desperately needs more of them. Last year around 40,000 doctors applied for about 10,000 specialist training posts. Instead of expanding speciality training posts to tackle waiting lists, the number of potential future specialists is being reduced by this Labour Government. At the same time, during negotiations, the Government reduced the investment that had been discussed and spread it over three years instead. So we’re in a situation where pay is still down in real terms, training bottlenecks are rife across the NHS, and the number of potential future specialists is being reduced. That’s why I’m going out on strike with Resident Doctors.

I’m a resident doctor and I’ll be going out on strike from April 7th. Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer have removed 1,000 extra NHS specialist training jobs; a decision that means fewer potential consultants and GPs, and potentially longer waits for patients in the future. This not only harms doctors, it harms the public and the NHS as a whole. But this isn’t just about those 1,000 posts. It’s also about the bigger picture and what it symbolises. Doctors’ pay has been cut in real terms for over a decade, and resident doctors are still earning 21% less in real terms than a doctor in 2008. There are now far more doctors than speciality training posts, so thousands of doctors can’t progress in their careers to become specialists even though the NHS desperately needs more of them. Last year around 40,000 doctors applied for about 10,000 specialist training posts. Instead of expanding speciality training posts to tackle waiting lists, the number of potential future specialists is being reduced by this Labour Government. At the same time, during negotiations, the Government reduced the investment that had been discussed and spread it over three years instead. So we’re in a situation where pay is still down in real terms, training bottlenecks are rife across the NHS, and the number of potential future specialists is being reduced. That’s why I’m going out on strike with Resident Doctors.

Dr Haseena Wazir

24,054 views • 4 months ago

Doctors are leaving the NHS because they are undervalued. In 2024, more doctors applied to leave the UK than in the previous decade combined - the result of a system that is fundamentally broken. We now have the diabolical situation where 40,000 doctors are competing for just 10,000 training jobs. Without these posts, doctors cannot train to become consultants or GPs. The NHS is actively blocking its own future workforce. At the same time, our pay has been eroded. Even after the most recent deal delivered during a period of double digit inflation, doctors are still around 20% worse off in real terms than in 2008 despite working just as hard, in a system where patients are sicker and more complex than ever before. Many resident doctors carry over £100,000 of student debt and start work as a fully qualified doctor on £18.62 an hour. We are asking for £22.67 an hour for foundation year one doctors for example, phased over time, not even all at once. Despite this, Wes Streeting has recommended another real terms pay cut this April. The jobs crisis and continued pay erosion are why resident doctors took strike action and why we are now reballoting. Resident doctors: return your ballot by 26th January. If you haven’t received one, request a replacement using the link: This ballot is about jobs, pay, and whether doctors are expected to accept permanent decline

Doctors are leaving the NHS because they are undervalued. In 2024, more doctors applied to leave the UK than in the previous decade combined - the result of a system that is fundamentally broken. We now have the diabolical situation where 40,000 doctors are competing for just 10,000 training jobs. Without these posts, doctors cannot train to become consultants or GPs. The NHS is actively blocking its own future workforce. At the same time, our pay has been eroded. Even after the most recent deal delivered during a period of double digit inflation, doctors are still around 20% worse off in real terms than in 2008 despite working just as hard, in a system where patients are sicker and more complex than ever before. Many resident doctors carry over £100,000 of student debt and start work as a fully qualified doctor on £18.62 an hour. We are asking for £22.67 an hour for foundation year one doctors for example, phased over time, not even all at once. Despite this, Wes Streeting has recommended another real terms pay cut this April. The jobs crisis and continued pay erosion are why resident doctors took strike action and why we are now reballoting. Resident doctors: return your ballot by 26th January. If you haven’t received one, request a replacement using the link: This ballot is about jobs, pay, and whether doctors are expected to accept permanent decline

Dr Haseena Wazir

20,272 views • 7 months ago

Thousands of doctors who could be cutting NHS waiting lists are being turned away; not because they aren’t needed, but because the Government caps how many can train to become Consultants/GPs. This year 30,000 doctors applied for just 10,000 training jobs. Highly trained doctors who want to stay in the NHS are being blocked from progressing, and some are being forced out altogether. That means fewer doctors in hospitals and GP practices, and longer waits for patients. The public feels the impact of this every day: longer waits, overstretched services, and fewer doctors available when you need them. Despite this, the Government’s plan is to bring forward only 1,000 extra training places; far below what’s needed to meet public demand or build up the workforce. On top of the jobs crisis, the Government has recommended a real terms pay cut rather than continuing the journey towards pay restoration. Those two factors together are why resident doctors were forced to strike again, and why we are now reballoting all grades of resident doctors from the 8th of December to the 2nd of February. Doctors: update your BMA account details (workplace, home address, training grade etc) to ensure you receive your postal ballot: 👉 Vote YES for jobs and pay. If we cannot recruit and retain NHS doctors, patients will be the ones who feel the impact. That is the reality the Government still refuses to address.

Thousands of doctors who could be cutting NHS waiting lists are being turned away; not because they aren’t needed, but because the Government caps how many can train to become Consultants/GPs. This year 30,000 doctors applied for just 10,000 training jobs. Highly trained doctors who want to stay in the NHS are being blocked from progressing, and some are being forced out altogether. That means fewer doctors in hospitals and GP practices, and longer waits for patients. The public feels the impact of this every day: longer waits, overstretched services, and fewer doctors available when you need them. Despite this, the Government’s plan is to bring forward only 1,000 extra training places; far below what’s needed to meet public demand or build up the workforce. On top of the jobs crisis, the Government has recommended a real terms pay cut rather than continuing the journey towards pay restoration. Those two factors together are why resident doctors were forced to strike again, and why we are now reballoting all grades of resident doctors from the 8th of December to the 2nd of February. Doctors: update your BMA account details (workplace, home address, training grade etc) to ensure you receive your postal ballot: 👉 Vote YES for jobs and pay. If we cannot recruit and retain NHS doctors, patients will be the ones who feel the impact. That is the reality the Government still refuses to address.

Dr Haseena Wazir

90,206 views • 8 months ago

The NHS is falling apart, yet doctors are blocked from caring for patients. In 2025, 20,000 more applied than there were available training posts to become Consultants/GPs. Doctors are being shut out because the Government won’t fund enough speciality training & post CCT places. And those FY1 doctors who *are* working are paid just £18.62/hr with over £100,000 of student debt, despite providing life saving care. This is catastrophic workforce planning; wasting doctors while patients face long waiting lists. Locking doctors out of specialty training isn’t an accident; it’s a deliberate political choice.

The NHS is falling apart, yet doctors are blocked from caring for patients. In 2025, 20,000 more applied than there were available training posts to become Consultants/GPs. Doctors are being shut out because the Government won’t fund enough speciality training & post CCT places. And those FY1 doctors who are working are paid just £18.62/hr with over £100,000 of student debt, despite providing life saving care. This is catastrophic workforce planning; wasting doctors while patients face long waiting lists. Locking doctors out of specialty training isn’t an accident; it’s a deliberate political choice.

Dr Haseena Wazir

49,007 views • 10 months ago