Just Heard A Doctor On Bbc News

[Paigntonian]

saying that he earns £15 an hour. And I'm mother Teresa.

[bobbinwales]

This is what Foundation training is
Foundation training
Part of a doctor’s training and takes place after the completion of a medical degree at university. It comprises a series of rotations in different specialties within hospitals or in the community. The first year of training is known as FY1 and the second FY2. Foundation training precedes specialist training in medicine or surgery.

[tomus42]

We need a bit of context or evidence around this, otherwise it's just someone saying they heard someone else saying something.

[Paigntonian]

It's rollocks. Worse, it's a downright lie.

[THECORBYLOON]

PAIGNTONIAN, are you saying that no doctor in the UK earns £15 per hour?

[Spicerack]

Auditioning for the Question Time audience, I expect.

[tomus42]

You watch QT on the beeb Spicey? Lol. What's that all about. Keeping an eye on the enemy?

[Paigntonian]

What's to stop junior doctors saying they'll only work a max of 50 hours a week?

[Paigntonian]

Corby: Yes, no doc in the UK employed by the NHS earns such a low wage as £15 a week. It's nonsense.

[Paigntonian]

Sorry! Meant £15 an hour.

[Spicerack]

No, but I know they always keep a seat for an underpaid RNHS worker. Two seats if it's a nurse who has to use the foodbank.

[tomus42]

I bet you have a look every now and then, purely for research purposes of course.

[Paigntonian]

Average nursing pay, NHS, £38,000 a year.

[Spicerack]

I used to watch it when Nigel was on.

[THECORBYLOON]

PAIGNTONIAN, if you look at this link, it's from the BMA website and it gives various annual rates for doctors on different scales in Scotland, Ulster, Wales and England.

Assuming a forty-hour week, £15 per hour equates to £31,200 per year and there are scales below that figure in the link.

[THECORBYLOON]

The link would help...
https://www.bma.org.uk/pay-and-contracts/pay

[youngmafbog]

Doctors would only be in those brackets for a short period of time, whilst training and like any other job you dont get full whack when you know zilch.

But once you have done your training you soon recoup it big time. My daughter earns more than me (Good on you girl) and I am in the 45% bracket!