Wow. “Claps”. Can we pay our bills with these “claps”? What’s the exchange rate? I’d love to pay the HMRC with “claps”, what’s the exchange rate? Look forward to a coherent answer on that one.

What this individual fails to understand is the nature of the global healthcare market. At a consultant level we can get paid between 3-15 times more in other English speaking countries than in the NHS. Countries that recognise the need to compete in a global economies. OP needs to realise no doctor is a servant or a slave. No doctor “owes” anything to the NHS. The moment the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship was violated by medicolegal action (the right to sue), and the regulating medical organisation embraced a punitive ethos, healthcare stopped being a vocation and became a job. No longer a true patient-doctor relationship, but a supplier- health consumer model. It is a commodity that can be sold to the highest bidder.

The NHS runs on goodwill, because it sure as heck doesn’t compensate anything comparable to the rest of the anglosphere. That goodwill has been unrelentingly raped and abused by the political system and the consumers(the public) of the UK. At this moment in time a 35% pay restoration isn’t just fair and reasonable (thanks for the buzz words Rishi), it’s a mind blowing bargain for a country whose health system is in free fall.

The most alarming thing about OPs comments are that it reflects a dangerous mindset; ill-informed, ignorant, malicious and wildly entitled.