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Dunroamin

clemmatis wrote: »

"Doctor shortage in Wales 'frightening' claim"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19340797

I said "junior doctors".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9274753/Up-to-1000-new-doctors-could-face-unemployment.html

clemmatis

princessdon wrote: »

but if they can fill with locum and agency workers then the issue is that they can "advertise" the position - probably due to budgeting and therefore need to use locum's (which costs more)? I think any permanant post would be snapped up.

From the piece

A shortage of doctors at hospitals in Wales has been described as "frightening" by a patients' watchdog.

More than half of health boards told said they are having difficulty.

The revelation comes as Neath Port Talbot Hospital stops accepting 999 medical emergencies and GP referrals.

Senior staff at Abertawe Bro Morgannwg Health Board (ABM) said the changes at Neath Port Talbot Hospital were due to doctor shortages.

A Dubai recruitment drive had yielded only one suitable clinician.

Dunroamin, from the piece I cited

"If you've got the choice between a well-known London teaching hospital or Manchester or Birmingham why would someone want to train in Wales?"

and from another piece

Welsh government is urged to tackle junior doctor shortage
Authors: Caroline White

Publication date: 08 Aug 2012

Orthopaedic operations at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant have been cancelled because of a shortage of junior doctors

http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/view-article.html?id=20008323

ETA I see the Telegraph piece is about a forecast shortage of traning places, next year.

MissMoneypenny

krisskross wrote: »

The fact that new entrants to our admittedly tiny island are not British by definition of them being immigrants makes complaints about them racist to my mind.

Hang on... some of the immigrants to the UK are the same race as the Brits. MUMZ2BEE didn't complain about any race and therefore didn't make a racist comment. What amused me about her comment on high immigration numbers, was that she seems to a Labour voter and it was Labour who opened the immigration doors wide to the UK, to import more Labour voters.

High numbers of people puts a big strain on services, roads, housing, jobs etc on this tiny island. If immigrants come to the UK on one of the job shortages skilled visas, then the UK needs those people.

Morlock

Big LOL at how touchy the 'usual suspects' get when it is their lives under the microscope. I feel somewhat amused at the fact, that I have learned from this thread, that they are a bunch of old, retired women. Spending their retirements berating benefits claimants on a forum whilst receiving state support and benefits themselves. PMSL!

outofmoney

My local Drs surgery has been relying on locums for some time now as all the doctors and all the office staff got up and left. If there is not a shortage of Drs then why haven't the positions been filled?

princessdon

outofmoney wrote: »

My local Drs surgery has been relying on locums for some time now as all the doctors and all the office staff got up and left. If there is not a shortage of Drs then why haven't the positions been filled?

Locums are Dr's too - the issue seems to be why locums won't take a permanent post = perhaps it's money they clearly have dr's in the area just not ones wanting to take a perm position??

leveller2911

Morlock wrote: »

Big LOL at how touchy the 'usual suspects' get when it is their lives under the microscope.
Spending their retirements berating benefits claimants on a forum whilst receiving state support and benefits themselves. PMSL!

Unlike you you mean, sitting at home in front of your PC with your little black book of the "usual suspects" when in reality you are just that a "usual suspect" spending ALL of your spare time on here berating anyone who criticises any part of the benefit system..........

Oh the irony........

Oh and BTW you still haven't backed up your feeble statement that I am a " serial benefit bashers" so jog off and recap on what I said and feel free to quote any post of mine. Just to help you out my reply to your pathetic accusation is post #488

krisskross

Morlock wrote: »

Big LOL at how touchy the 'usual suspects' get when it is their lives under the microscope. I feel somewhat amused at the fact, that I have learned from this thread, that they are a bunch of old, retired women. Spending their retirements berating benefits claimants on a forum whilst receiving state support and benefits themselves. PMSL!

Let me know where to send the new wooden spoon. You must have worn the old one out.

mazza111

As I said I would:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/workingintheuk/shortageoccupationlistnov11.pdf

That's the latest one I can find. So some medical posts on there.

Bad news on the doc front for those of you who are interested. The lovely doc we seen read the research and thinks the pros of having the implant far outweigh the cons. So good news and bad. She doesn't think it's the implant causing the deterioration, although she admittedly didn't know much about EDS/HMS, no change there. But she researched it in front of us and weighed up the situation. So she's to keep the implants and not try the pill as the doc believes it will cause more problems in other areas. So it's not going to be as easy as changing her contraception to get the improvement.


Now we're racist for making comments about immigrants? The mind boggles. BTW just for the record, I have an x who was Belgian and the current fella is Irish. When I went to Tenerife last year, I went with my Bangladeshi friend. So please... because I'm concerned about immigration doesn't make me a racist.

Dunroamin

clemmatis wrote: »

From the piece




Dunroamin, from the piece I cited



and from another piece



http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/view-article.html?id=20008323

ETA I see the Telegraph piece is about a forecast shortage of traning places, next year.

There are shortages in all these medical professions but my point has been all along that there are no jobs. This is the great health anomaly at the moment.