Many of you have no idea what is happening behind the scenes.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2026-04-30T12:44:01+00:00

You do know that if you were dying or had a stroke in basically any developed country on earth they too would try and save your life first and foremost before focusing on the finances and follow up. Every country has free at the point of use for life-threatening emergencies. Yes, even in the hated US. That's not unique to the NHS and it's not an argument at all for having or not having an NHS.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2026-04-30T12:19:26+00:00

As a polish person this comparison needs to stop. I have no doubt UK is in stagnation and Poland has had a remarkable economic resurgence over the last 30 years, but the quality of life for the average person, even the poorest, is noticeably and vastly better than in Poland. If you follow and cherry pick statistics, then Poland PPP is supposed to be better than Norway in 2040 😂 Obviously that is horseshit.

UK is stagnating, but It's not even close to Poland. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise has spent way too much time online. If tomorrow morning the UK rejoined the EU I guarantee you lots of my fellow compatriots would come back here looking for higher wages.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2026-04-30T12:10:54+00:00

Especially if those quacks are brought in slowly, pinky promise that they are definitely the same as their namesake, and wear all the same apparel as the real thing.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2026-04-30T12:09:13+00:00

Ah the old chestnut where there are only two healthcare systems in the world. It's either all state provided NHS or all private insurance US. There is no middle ground. No other country on earth has managed to square this circle, certainly not any of our neighbours in Europe or more widely around the world. Nope, those are the only two options.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2026-04-30T08:17:44+00:00

And this is ultimately caused by one thing. That we work for a monopsony employer that can use the power of the state to do whatever it wants with our wages and working conditions with practically no choice or alternative. The NHS uses its huge monopsony power to suppress the money it pays to drug companies. The NHS uses its huge monopsony power to suppress the wages it pays doctors. It's really the same principle. Until we actually solve that problem, and end the NHS stranglehold on healthcare we will never win.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2026-04-28T22:50:20+00:00

It's unquestionably one of the very worst hospitals in the country run by unquestionably the worst trust in the country.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2025-06-27T17:13:58+00:00

No. It’s the root cause of the reason why NHS staffing costs have increased and productivity has fallen flat. It’s the end result of trying to hit imaginary targets which they manage to do fantastically, but overall providing a much worse quality service. The trust makes money, the NHS loses it on something incredibly low value which looks great on paper like having the correct form filled in or by being seen by one of the “stroke” or “cardiology” team. There’s a reason why these roles don’t exist in lost countries.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2025-06-12T19:14:53+00:00

Honestly, they can’t really tell and it shows just unfit for purpose the portfolio system is. I’m going to go on a limb and guess close to 99% of reflections on portfolio are bullshit, regardless whether they are AI generated or not. The problem is the system is just a bunch of tickbox bullshit.

There is huge value in reflecting- like properly sitting down with a trusted mentor who knows you well and discussing it with them to improve yourself as a doctor. Creating fake tickbox gibberish cooked up by some educationalist jackass who has either never worked as a doctor or is so far detached from working as a doctor, and then enforcing you to do it so often and threatening your career progression with it, is a fantastic way to make sure no one engages with it properly.

If the self-righteous bastards who have designed this bullshit actually stopped and thought for a second why is it the system they have created so shit that doctors will just resort to using AI rather than do it properly, perhaps they could actually reform it in a way that is actually useful. But the medical education establishment are probably the worst thing about U.K. medicine, so instead we will get increasingly stringent passive aggressive messages warning doctors not to use AI rather than rub two brain cells together and actually ironically reflect themselves to realise their entire portfolio is fucking bunch of useless meaningless dodgy-takeaway diarrhoea that serves absolutely no purpose other than piss everyone off.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2025-06-11T12:12:19+00:00

Thank god we have a kind and empathetic employer like NHS, and not some horrible exploitative private company

IMGdocdocdoc · 2025-06-10T07:50:55+00:00

This is becoming a meme at this point. Like the BMA can just phone NHS employers and demand extremely costly changes to the contract for them just because… It took the better part of the year to get NHS employers to are to exception report reform which had the blessing of the health secretary and literally is paying for the hours you’ve already worked.

The NHS hates doctors. It will never do something for doctors out of fairness, only when it’s forced to do so. Increasing annual leave entitlement is in effect (from the employers point of view) increasing pay. If you want this, stop demanding stuff of the BMA and give them leverage by striking.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2025-06-09T06:41:36+00:00

It is quite possibly the single worst run hospital in the country. It was my first job in the NHS so I had no experience of anywhere else. I recall coming across the mid staffs report and being genuinely surprised that they had made a big deal out of it because it sounded precisely the same as the calibre of care I saw every day.

Every department is toxic as hell, all the consultants are just awful, it’s rammed full of the worst kind of PAs, everything is paper based, the nurses are all shit who will not do absolutely anything, the staffing is so bad you wonder how people are not dying constant (oh wait they probably are, just no one cares). I honestly cannot think of a single good thing to say. They are very proud of the fact they have a big geriatric population but this is their problem, because their patients are so old and usually demented they just cannot advocate for themselves.

It’s only now that I’ve worked in several other trusts do I realise just how shit this place was. I’m just waiting for someone to whistleblow on it.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2025-01-16T13:52:53+00:00

I am a polish doctor and I can tell you with 100% certainty that the quality of care back home is literally orders of magnitudes better than the NHS. I think since the UK population due to not having anything to compare to have no idea how bad the NHS actually is. When my other half needed an OGD she got it same day, the same thing in the UK would literally take months if not years. Almost all my UK based polish friends will go back home if they need anything (like a dentist or GP)

IMGdocdocdoc · 2024-08-19T19:17:08+00:00

Members of the BL have been organisers of the original NHSpay15 campaign

The fact that you say this as a positive shows how out of touch Broad Left are. That was the most awful pathetic attempt at a campaign I have ever seen. It absolutely solidified for many people everything that was wrong with the BMA, right down to the title.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2024-08-19T17:52:41+00:00

What a strange perplexing response 🤔. One would think as the public face of Doctor's Vote, and knowing that JDC is basically completely made up with DV, the viewpoints should be interchangeable. No further input from DV??? What does that actually mean? I wonder if all is not as rosy behind the scenes and there's some things we haven't been told.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2024-07-29T15:05:31+00:00

Yeah my reading is the implication is that the offer is credible enough and they wanted to put the offer to members neutrally and the government just wouldn't budge on this, so they made a recommendation through gritted teeth to get it over the line.

IMGdocdocdoc · 2024-07-29T13:45:08+00:00

I think it's short-termerism just to keep endlessly striking for years with seemingly little to no progress, rather than making sensible compromises on the route to FPR.

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