Kieren McEwan
@that-sloth.bsky.social
Programme Lead (Educational Partnerships) at the University of Portsmouth. #PhD #Vegan #ExtremeSports, #RoadCyclist, #MountainBiker, #MarathonRunner.
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To be clear that’s about a third of the cost of the whole NHS for a year.
July 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
To be clear that’s about a third of the cost of the whole NHS for a year.
It absolutely isn’t. The median salary for public sector employees is £35,680 (in 2025). Not as good as an average, I know, but based on that we’d be looking at around £61,000,000,000 that the exchequer would need to find. The economics just don’t work in the real world unfortunately.
July 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It absolutely isn’t. The median salary for public sector employees is £35,680 (in 2025). Not as good as an average, I know, but based on that we’d be looking at around £61,000,000,000 that the exchequer would need to find. The economics just don’t work in the real world unfortunately.
That’s about 7,773,800 people (give or take) and if they all got the 22% the junior doctors got, then the exchequer wouldn’t have a hope in hell of funding it.
July 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
That’s about 7,773,800 people (give or take) and if they all got the 22% the junior doctors got, then the exchequer wouldn’t have a hope in hell of funding it.
In 2024 18.1% of the working population was in a public sector employment role…and you think there is enough money to right pay stagnation for over a decades and a half (arguably longer) for everyone. Really? You’re naive if you think so. It’s basic economics not propaganda.
July 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In 2024 18.1% of the working population was in a public sector employment role…and you think there is enough money to right pay stagnation for over a decades and a half (arguably longer) for everyone. Really? You’re naive if you think so. It’s basic economics not propaganda.
That’s not my point…but let’s give doctors a second pay rise, meaning other equally essential public sector employees can’t have one (having waited for years and years).
July 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
That’s not my point…but let’s give doctors a second pay rise, meaning other equally essential public sector employees can’t have one (having waited for years and years).
My wife (a further education teacher) hasn’t had a proper pay rise in years and neither have I (a uni lecturer). I think the junior doctors have miscalculated public opinion on this.
July 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
My wife (a further education teacher) hasn’t had a proper pay rise in years and neither have I (a uni lecturer). I think the junior doctors have miscalculated public opinion on this.
