Will public support for junior doctors wane?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to Corby Hose Shots. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Lucy Dunn, the spectator's social media editor, |
| 0:24.0 | and today I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and Keith Andrews. |
| 0:27.6 | So the big story of today that everyone's focusing on is the second round of NHS |
| 0:31.6 | England junior doctors strikes. They're taking place from 7 a.m. this morning |
| 0:35.6 | to 7 a.m. on Saturday, so that's 96 continuous hours of strike action |
| 0:39.6 | and the junior doctors are looking for 35% pay rise and better working conditions. |
| 0:45.6 | Fraser, what do you think of what's going on just now? |
| 0:47.6 | I think this exposes the problem the government's got trying to respond to this |
| 0:51.6 | and being a doctor is not an underpaid position. |
| 0:53.6 | And the strange thing about Britain is that we're quite generous |
| 0:57.6 | in that we subsidise doctor training quite a lot. |
| 0:59.6 | For example, you could say the junior doctors get paid a lot more in Australia |
| 1:03.6 | or that that may be the case, but by the time they finish the training they've spent a lot |
| 1:07.6 | they're way more in debt than they are in this country. |
| 1:09.6 | So in the UK we've tried to have this quid pro quo that when people are undergoing medical training |
| 1:15.6 | they don't pay that much. They then get paid not very much from the junior doctors |
| 1:19.6 | but then fairly quickly they get on a fairly decent salary scheme, |
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