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6 comments:
At last, some joined-up thinking from our government. Khan's young Londoners have already demonstrated an interest in cutting people open and prescribing drugs, so with a bit of mentoring we should get another 100,000 new doctors.
Productivity in the public sector? Is that actually a thing? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've never seen the public sector produce much of anything
Doctors, and to a lesser extent nurses, have a cachet for professionalism. If they strike like any other wage slave then their status as professionals is likely to be reduced.
Of course you could argue that since most of the doctors work for or are contracted to the NHS then they are just like any other wage slave - the care they deliver is limited to the care that their employers choose.
The true withdrawal of labour is to resign and work elsewhere. Apparently this is happening but the NHS and Government have not yet woken up to the severity of this issue.
"... but I've never seen the public sector produce much of anything..."
Lots of wallet ache in my experience.
On a seperate blog I saw a comment that stated x was taking early redundancy with generous severance pay, soon others told of similar results they had managed to get plus others of the same to follow shortly.
All congratulated themselves and the others on taking the right decision before they are fifty! and needless to say all were in the public sector, two tier society, shirley not.
Sam - good point, although Khan's young Londoners don't show much interest in nursing.
Bucko - they produce plans, paperwork and protocols though.
DJ - maybe over time the perceived professionalism of doctors and nurses will become much the same. Maybe it already is.
decnine - and no sign of it decreasing.
wiggia - it was tightening up by the time I left, but how some people escaped early was always a bit of a mystery.
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