00:00What do we want? Pay restoration!
00:02How are we gonna get it? Strike!
00:04What do we want? Pay restoration!
00:07Come on Wes, do it today, fix our jobs, fix our pay!
00:11Okay, what do we want? Pay restoration!
00:14When do we want it? Pay restoration!
00:18Vote Pay restoration!
00:22Vote Pay restoration!
00:30So there are two issues. The first one is we have a jobs crisis.
00:41Doctors cannot find work and they're being turned away from jobs.
00:45And then you talk about pay. Pay is important.
00:48We must value our doctors in this country.
00:51They are seeing better offers elsewhere.
00:53We are training doctors in this country who are then seeing countries nearby,
00:57like Ireland. Just across the RAC they pay doctors more in Ireland than they do in this country.
01:02Australia, other industries even in the UK.
01:05We saw more doctors taking that step to leave the profession last year than any did in the last decade.
01:11Yeah, so it's flu season at the moment and I work in acute medicine.
01:25So if you come to a hospital, you go to A&E or you get admitted directly to acute medicine.
01:29Once you've been into A&E you'll likely come to my acute medical unit.
01:32I have to apologise to patients in corridors who we are providing oxygen to out of bottles
01:39because we don't have enough doctors to see the patients, discharge patients in our acute medical units.
01:44We need more doctors and yet we have a government which is seemingly insistent on turning away 30,000 of them this year.
01:52Despite being fully qualified and ready to work and get these patients through A&E departments,
01:58trained to become the GPs of the future, but we don't have a fix to that problem yet.
02:03We're saying to the government let's sit down, work constructively and fix that issue
02:08which will work for doctors and also crucially for patients.
02:11What do you say?
02:15What did he say?
02:16He said...
02:18Oh hi.
02:20You're going to prison back here.
02:29You know what?
02:32so the average salary for a junior doctor at the moment in my in like F1 is 38,000 so I think that
02:58you know physicians assistants they do nine to five every week we do we do much worse hours than
03:05that they get paid I think 47,000 so and we have all the clinical responsibility because you know
03:12the doctors are regulated by the GMC responsible for our patients we make the we do the prescriptions
03:19we make the final decisions about their care and I think that that is not properly reflected in the
03:26pay the bills
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