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  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    markharding557 wrote: »
    So you would be happy for nurses,doctors,surgeons whose skills don't come under a lorry from france,police and fireman to get 25% cuts would you?
    You sound like a typical daily mail readerdailymail.gif

    Most Doctors and surgeons once experienced earn well over £100k pa. Not exactly peanuts but they are highly skilled. Many middle managers within the civil service would be lucky to receive half their current wage anywhere else with the skillset they have.
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Most Doctors and surgeons once experienced earn well over £100k pa. Not exactly peanuts but they are highly skilled. Many middle managers within the civil service would be lucky to receive half their current wage anywhere else with the skillset they have.

    Are you sure about that?

    http://www.hospitaldr.co.uk/features/hospital-doctors-pay-scales-for-20092010
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    FTBFun wrote: »
    Are you sure about that?

    http://www.hospitaldr.co.uk/features/hospital-doctors-pay-scales-for-20092010

    I did say experienced.
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    I did say experienced.

    But not how experienced, conveniently.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    ILW wrote: »
    Most Doctors and surgeons once experienced earn well over £100k pa
    from your experience reading the Daily Star
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    well, a young friend aged 23 year old started as a junior doctor in September on £22k basic ... plus a standard 50% uplift for unsocial hours etc
    and gets overtime (I didn't ask at what rate)

    so what is needed is to know what the actual gross pay is rather than the basis pay rates
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    from your experience reading the Daily Star


    Surgeons and consultants are the bottom end of the pile.

    GPs are where the real money is.

    * I used to support the software that paid GPs.
  • Sir_Humphrey
    Sir_Humphrey Posts: 1,978 Forumite
    abaxas wrote: »
    Surgeons and consultants are the bottom end of the pile.

    GPs are where the real money is.

    * I used to support the software that paid GPs.

    I know someone who is a GP (she emigrated to Oz for better working conditions).

    I agree that GPs are well paid. Any graduate who as part of their daily job have to stick thier fingers up old men's dirty fundaments is always going to be well paid.

    However, did you process their annual indemnity insurance premiums?

    I think the very best money is to be found in the private sector for medics. Market forces, old boy.
    Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Sir_Humphrey wrote: »
    I know someone who is a GP (she emigrated to Oz for better working conditions).

    I agree that GPs are well paid. Any graduate who as part of their daily job have to stick thier fingers up old men's dirty fundaments is always going to be well paid.

    However, did you process their annual indemnity insurance premiums?

    I think the very best money is to be found in the private sector for medics. Market forces, old boy.

    Your normal care worker has to do that for £6.50 per hour.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    FTBFun wrote: »
    But not how experienced, conveniently.

    GP or mid range consultant.
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