'Huge job cuts' for public sector

[minestrone]

http://www.rcgp.org.uk/pdf/SYWTBGP%20Booklet.pdf

If you've got a degree you can take a conversion degree (medical) in 4 yrs instead of 5.

Once you have this, you are basically laughing.

I'm too old to be chopping and changin but if I were young and had enough money to support myself for the 4 yrs, I'd jump at it.

Job for life at stupendous salary and all the nurses you can eat. And a pension that makes bankers looks like paupers.

You then have 2-3 years as a hospital doctor working tulip loads of hours and living in the wards, then, assuming you want to be a GP you will have to do locums (350 a day) for a number of years until you get a partnership if you are lucky.

To suggest that you finish 4 years and walk into a 200,000 grand a year job (which you would be working about 6-7 days a week to get on NHS money) is nonsense.

Also the gov knew they buggered up the new contract and the wages are down about 10-15% in the last coule of years which is going to continue,

[TimberWolf]

You then have 2-3 years as a hospital doctor working tulip loads of hours and living in the wards, then, assuming you want to be a GP you will have to do locums (350 a day) for a number of years until you get a partnership if you are lucky.

To suggest that you finish 4 years and walk into a 200,000 grand a year job (which you would be working about 6-7 days a week to get on NHS money) is nonsense.

Also the gov knew they buggered up the new contract and the wages are down about 10-15% in the last coule of years which is going to continue,

I've never heard of a poor Doctor.

What are '350 locums a day'? I've heard of short term contracts, but one every 2 minutes would look bad on a CV.

[FSM with Cheddar]

Sorry forgot to exclude Swindon from that. Your doomed.

[DimPrawn]

You then have 2-3 years as a hospital doctor working tulip loads of hours and living in the wards, then, assuming you want to be a GP you will have to do locums (350 a day) for a number of years until you get a partnership if you are lucky.

To suggest that you finish 4 years and walk into a 200,000 grand a year job (which you would be working about 6-7 days a week to get on NHS money) is nonsense.

Also the gov knew they buggered up the new contract and the wages are down about 10-15% in the last coule of years which is going to continue,

Utter bollox. The pay is going up and the 2-3 years as a hospital doctor is no longer the workfest it once was. More of a shag and booze fest.

And £200K is not even a high income for most GP's who work part time.

[sasguru]

Dimprawn et al - you make me laugh. Thinking you could become a doctor with your limited cognitive abilities is like AtW thinking he can become an entrepreneur.

Seems like most CUKKERS live in cloud cuckoo land.

[DimPrawn]

I've spent a lot of time with people in white coats.

[Menelaus]

I've spent a lot of time with people in white coats.

The fashionable ones, with the wraparound sleeves?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Seems like most CUKKERS live in cloud cuckoo land.

Sounds nice - can I go and live there? If not, how about duck island? I fancy that too.

[minestrone]

I've never heard of a poor Doctor.

What are '350 locums a day'? I've heard of short term contracts, but one every 2 minutes would look bad on a CV.

The average GP was pulling in about 60k a year until the new contract, OK now it is about 130k but the Goverment know that they got shafted and are changing the goalposts to try and get it back well under 100k. That is probably a resonable income for an IT contractor so why bother moving.

[DimPrawn]

Exactly. Don't bother, you wouldn't like the low hours as a GP, the holidays and the amazing pension at 55.

Much better to stick to IT, that ain't going to go away to India is it?