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shrike82
Jun 11, 2005

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

You do 5-6 years undergrad

Then to be a hospital consultant it's 8-9 years as a junior doctor before you complete your training.

And what're the pay grades like?

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TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Fans posted:

Romesh Ranganathan. Presumably here purely to annoy Farage.

I hope he starts every line with "As a vegan, I.."

Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

shrike82 posted:

And what're the pay grades like?
Currently the basic rate is:

Two intern (sorta) years

FY1 22,636
FY2 28,076

Enter into specialist training

CT1 30,002
CT2 31,838

Pick sub-specialty

ST3 34,402
ST4 35,952
ST5 37,822
ST6 39,693
ST7 41,564

Congrats you are now a consultant

Generally you then get 40-50% on top for all your out of hours work

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!

shrike82 posted:

And what're the pay grades like?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_doctor

All the information you seek is here

shrike82
Jun 11, 2005

Jesus, that's incredibly poo poo pay. A lot more respect for the Junior Docs now.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
Don't forget you need to pay exam fees etc for continued training

Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Don't forget you need to pay exam fees etc for continued training

most people will spend about 2 grand each set of exams because of fees, courses and the odd retake.I was pretty jammy and passed my primary first time without courses. Someone of the courses take the absolute piss too, threaten candidates with GMC referrals if they take any pictures of the questions they set before asking them to all remember a certain numbered question from the real exam to add to their bank.

I pay £800/year to be a member of various organisations and that's with a college that doesn't take the absolute piss. I pay ~200, my surgical colleagues pay over double and then another couple of hundred for an eportfolio the RCS forces them to use (supplied by themselves of course)

Loving Africa Chaps fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Feb 11, 2016

shrike82
Jun 11, 2005

Again, as a transplant from the States, the numbers (income/living expenses) for the average Londoner don't make any sense to me.

Relative to NY, people seem to earn less pre-tax than equivalent jobs. And they have to spend more on stuff like rent and day-to-day expenses.
Like I don't get how people survive.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
A lot of people are forced to commute for multiple hours each way other day, because otherwise they won't be able to live.

Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

In terms of what the 'free market' will pay you can get 75 grand (mon-fri 40 hours a week) from IDS after two years to do disability assessments though that salary does include your soul

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

Currently the basic rate is:

Two intern (sorta) years

FY1 22,636
FY2 28,076

Enter into specialist training

CT1 30,002
CT2 31,838

Pick sub-specialty

ST3 34,402
ST4 35,952
ST5 37,822
ST6 39,693
ST7 41,564

Congrats you are now a consultant

Generally you then get 40-50% on top for all your out of hours work

Holy poo poo a year in and they get a progression that I need a promotion to obtain :qq:


I hope the doctors continue fighting the contract, not least because I'm pretty sure the nurse contract comes up for renewal this year.

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

Namtab posted:

Holy poo poo a year in and they get a progression that I need a promotion to obtain :qq:


I hope the doctors continue fighting the contract, not least because I'm pretty sure the nurse contract comes up for renewal this year.

One of the reasons my nurse friends are so behind the doctors is that they'll want their help when they're getting hosed by Hunt too.

Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

Namtab posted:

Holy poo poo a year in and they get a progression that I need a promotion to obtain :qq:


I hope the doctors continue fighting the contract, not least because I'm pretty sure the nurse contract comes up for renewal this year.

That jump represents going from provisional to full registration so in theory a decent step up in responsibility

serious gaylord posted:

One of the reasons my nurse friends are so behind the doctors is that they'll want their help when they're getting hosed by Hunt too.

Yeah saturdays for us = saturdays for everyone. Consultants have their contract coming up and already you have a major trust cancelling all leave to go to conferences or attend courses

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Well I figure the nurses are also doing it because they're aware it's a hosed up lovely contract and they're looking out for their comrades.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

For the record, the nurses (and ahps) pay scale is here.

https://www.rcn.org.uk/employment-and-pay/nhs-pay-scales-2015-16

For the record band 3 and 4 is healthcare assistants and support workers, registered nurses start at 5, 7 is a ward sister, 8 is management.

Every year you go up a point in your band, when you reach the top of a band you get 1% a year until you get a new banding through a job interview.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
All goons join us in #ukgoons (synirc) for Question Time. This week: Llanelli with Leanne Wood, Carwyn Jones, Big Nige (a given), a comedian who isn't very funny and a beardy Tory bellend. BYOB!!! :holy:

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Tesseraction posted:

Well I figure the nurses are also doing it because they're aware it's a hosed up lovely contract and they're looking out for their comrades.

It's poo poo, it's dangerous, the 7 day nhs mostly exists.


Ultimately I expect there'd be even more public support if the nurses ever took strike action because there's a misconception, even among some of my nursing colleagues, that doctors all earn tons to begin with.

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

Namtab posted:

It's poo poo, it's dangerous, the 7 day nhs mostly exists.


Ultimately I expect there'd be even more public support if the nurses ever took strike action because there's a misconception, even among some of my nursing colleagues, that doctors all earn tons to begin with.

Nurses, like teachers and soldiers, are a tory voters darling. If Hunt manages to get the nurses striking it will have an impact.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

crispix posted:

a comedian who isn't very funny

I like Romesh. :(

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
Romesh is an acquired taste, but he is very good at aggravating people into embarrassing themselves.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

There's a lot of Tory nurses and I have a reasonable suspicion that the rcn doesn't do general strikes.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

serious gaylord posted:

Romesh is an acquired taste, but he is very good at aggravating people into embarrassing themselves.

That sounds awesome, where does he do that?

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I checked and the RCN has never had a general strike

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

thehustler posted:

So far 9 out of 20 NHS CEOs have publicly said - mostly on Twitter- that they support the terms of the contract but don't support imposition of it, despite a great many of those 20 saying they wanted the government to force it through "by any means necessary".

Peculiar.
https://twitter.com/andrewkfoster/status/697857114560135168

Niric
Jul 23, 2008

serious gaylord posted:

Nurses, like teachers and soldiers, are a tory voters darling. If Hunt manages to get the nurses striking it will have an impact.

I was under the impression Tories don't have much time for teachers, thinking they're all lefty types who spend too much time striking and having dangerous ideas about how the 19th century educational system and curriculum weren't perfect.

Niric fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Feb 11, 2016

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Niric posted:

I was under the impression Tories don't have much time for teachers, thinking they're all lefty types who spend too much time striking and having dangerous ideas about thre 19th century educational system and curriculum not being perfect.

The Guardian gleefully hosted a column by a Tory teacher who spoke about how they're the silent majority keeping their heads down to avoid the lefty loons who'd beat them up in the staff room if they knew.

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Namtab posted:

I checked and the RCN has never had a general strike

And before this the BMA hadn't acted like a trade union before.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

namesake posted:

And before this the BMA hadn't acted like a trade union before.

Could this be the big society Dave spoke of

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
Question time is about 5 minutes from me in two weeks.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Sounds like you need to go bean the Tory.

shrike82
Jun 11, 2005

McDouble is 'cheapest and most nutritious food in human history'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10210327/McDouble-is-cheapest-and-most-nutritious-food-in-human-history.html

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
This tory is getting an absolute shoeing.

Manic_Misanthrope
Jul 1, 2010


Tesseraction posted:

The Guardian gleefully hosted a column by a Tory teacher who spoke about how they're the silent majority keeping their heads down to avoid the lefty loons who'd beat them up in the staff room if they knew.

You get gits in any profession who think they're a silent majority despite being worried that all the lefties will kick their arse for it.

Prince John
Jun 20, 2006

Oh, poppycock! Female bandits?

serious gaylord posted:

This tory is getting an absolute shoeing.

I was thinking he was doing quite well, considering. A couple of weeks ago, the Tory minister was being booed by the audience.

Everybody, even doctors, seem to have bought into the weekend deaths myth now, even though the study was not considering weekends in isolation. :grrr:

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Manic_Misanthrope posted:

You get gits in any profession who think they're a silent majority despite being worried that all the lefties will kick their arse for it.

And by jove I would kick their arse for it.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Not really I'm a giant fairy and would be snapped in half.

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

Prince John posted:

I was thinking he was doing quite well, considering. A couple of weeks ago, the Tory minister was being booed by the audience.

Everybody, even doctors, seem to have bought into the weekend deaths myth now, even though the study was not considering weekends in isolation. :grrr:

Hes got answers but they're all utterly meaningless. I was reading that this guy is thought of as one of the next Tory leaders, which explains his dedication to empty soundbite rhetoric.

minema
May 31, 2011

Namtab posted:

I checked and the RCN has never had a general strike

Most of the nurses I work with are with Unison now.

Namtab posted:

For the record, the nurses (and ahps) pay scale is here.

https://www.rcn.org.uk/employment-and-pay/nhs-pay-scales-2015-16

For the record band 3 and 4 is healthcare assistants and support workers, registered nurses start at 5, 7 is a ward sister, 8 is management.

Every year you go up a point in your band, when you reach the top of a band you get 1% a year until you get a new banding through a job interview.

Healthcare assistants are band 2 here.

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/697417803159224321
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/697416670432854016

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Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009


Mwahahahahaha CHAOS REIGNS.

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