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  • taon24
    taon24 Posts: 185
    Declaration of competing interests - I am a Junior Doctor.

    Significant issues with the contract:
    1) Final details are still not available.
    2) The new 'penalties' for working beyond contracted hours are 150% of basic pay to the doctor (if extra hours are approved in advance) and 250% of basic pay paid to the trust. A locum doctor (at capped rates costs 155%).
    Additionally the penalties are per hour additional worked. It might therefore be cost effective to routinely overwork a doctor by a few hours to avoid employing more doctors.
    The fact that a portion of fines are paid back to the trust and the remaining portion are less than a locum seems to represent minimal interest for a trust to ensure adequate staffing and seems to discouarge safe staffing compared to the current contract.
    3) Junior doctors are unable to do the work they want outside of their standard paid hours, even while they remain within their hour limit.
    4) The money seems to be better for some, but the terms worse in general.
    5) You can work as much out of hours as the trust wishes for 150% of your current basic salary at present. The same will not be true on the new contract, so it is unclear why the new contract is needed.
  • Lookyhere
    Lookyhere Posts: 987
    These 2 articles, about a year apart, show that instead of pee ing off jnr doc's and creating a new shortage in a few years,
    the Tories should have been on the ball with this, it doesnt take 6 plus years to train nurses, so it is purely their fault this has occurred - once again, tory cuts have cost MORE money not less.

    whats even worse that nhs is taking nurses from 3rd world economies.

    http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015 ... rom-abroad

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rseas.html

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