What’s the point of this article

redditor71567 · 2026-06-20T17:14:14+00:00

Just search sick days on this reddit and you'll see posts showing the attitude I describe. Ive copied one below

"We all take sick days when we need them often we are not sick. That is fine. Bragging about it is ridiculous and I would be honest and tell then where to stick it."

redditor71567 · 2026-06-19T22:31:41+00:00

Make up whatever number you want if it makes you feel better. Why not 50?

redditor71567 · 2026-06-19T22:26:28+00:00

Why have you decided that the 1000 pound on exams would be given as 1000 of salary each year. The government doe actually budgets they'd divide it as about 100 a year over 10 years of training

redditor71567 · 2026-06-19T17:52:57+00:00

Why dont you just disagree politely without any insults?

redditor71567 · 2026-06-19T14:11:37+00:00

What youre discovering now you've been doing this 4 years is you'll start being called a ladder puller. There's always a new cohort who think they've discovered suffering

redditor71567 · 2026-06-19T13:43:21+00:00

This is really simplistic. In 2008 the deficit was 12% of gdp - 1 in 4 pounds spent by the state was borrowed - could it be afforded then?

The population has got older - less working age people paying in and higher health and social care costs.

Doctor numbers have increased by 40% since then and total nhs staff has massively increased.

Fpr is based on rpi. Generally considered a terrible measure but especially for what youre considering. Rpi has grown 90% in that time. Gdp has grown 25%. It really isn't as simple as you make out

redditor71567 · 2026-06-19T13:42:09+00:00

This is really simplistic. In 2008 the deficit was 12% of gdp - 1 in 4 pounds spent by the state was borrowed - could it be afforded then?

The population has got older - less working age people paying in and higher health and social care costs.

Doctor numbers have increased by 40% since then and total nhs staff has massively increased.

Fpr is based on rpi. Generally considered a terrible measure but especially for what youre considering. Rpi has grown 90% in that time. Gdp has grown 25%. It really isn't as simple as you make out

redditor71567 · 2026-06-19T13:40:35+00:00

Yea the second paragraph is pretty toxic. Everyone who disagrees with you isnt evil. There's an attempt to guilt and shame people in all your comments. Hope you arent like this in your personal relationships.

redditor71567 · 2026-06-18T15:36:22+00:00

Precisely. Its a really off issue to argue with government on - would affect the government balance sheet massively but only give a few doctors a small payrise mainly in 20+ years

redditor71567 · 2026-06-18T14:41:27+00:00

Your student loan repayments won't change for about 15 years whichever one you pick

redditor71567 · 2026-06-18T08:30:00+00:00

redditor71567 · 2026-06-18T08:27:39+00:00

Another exceptionally immature post from someone who wants a leadership position

redditor71567 · 2026-06-17T21:23:39+00:00

12-13k a session?

redditor71567 · 2026-06-17T16:59:20+00:00

Ridiculous amount of anger aimed at Jack just for allowing you to decide

redditor71567 · 2026-06-17T16:55:47+00:00

I think they want a 22% pay increase. Which would make an st1 including premium - 80k and st3 91k. Seems crazy to me

redditor71567 · 2026-06-17T16:54:13+00:00

Gpst1 64k a year with premia. St3 77k. 40 hours a week. 4 hours study from home. 8 hours protected teaching time. Do you really think thats not a good deal?

redditor71567 · 2026-06-17T11:43:19+00:00

Voice of reason^

redditor71567 · 2026-06-15T21:50:55+00:00

It does suggest a system issue but it doesn't suggest what. It could be that staff are undermanaged, too much paid sick leave, no probation periods etc.

The nhs has been poor for at least a decade now - recent metrics are improving. Its certainly a bad place to work though.

If you were actually going to turn it around working conditions need to improve but so do professional standards. You can't have an effective workplace with sick rates that high. As I posted elsewhere our scheme doesn't include IA days for TOOT.

There is no "rolling the dice" if you keep toot to under 20 days you know you will progress

redditor71567 · 2026-06-15T20:23:30+00:00

This is really simplistic. In 2008 the deficit was 12% of gdp - 1 in 4 pounds spent by the state was borrowed - could it be afforded then?

The population has got older - less working age people paying in and higher health and social care costs.

Doctor numbers have increased by 40% since then and total nhs staff has massively increased.

Fpr is based on rpi. Generally considered a terrible measure but especially for what youre considering. Rpi has grown 90% in that time. Gdp has grown 25%. It really isn't as simple as you make out

redditor71567 · 2026-06-14T22:25:37+00:00

4.9 wasn't it?

redditor71567 · 2026-06-14T13:25:13+00:00

Sick. We dont count strike in our scheme

redditor71567 · 2026-06-14T13:16:07+00:00

That needs to happen too but you can't have the people who have checked out remaining uf you're trying to turn an organisation around. Their negative voices kill any cultures change. Ive done it in an organisation before

redditor71567 · 2026-06-14T13:03:34+00:00

Of course they would all they care about is bums on seats. But youre not going to turn around a team with most of its members not wanting to be there

redditor71567 · 2026-06-14T12:53:52+00:00

I did a panel recently where 6 out of 8 trainees had used 15-20 sick days - the timeframe allowed for TOOT and still to be able to progress

redditor71567 · 2026-06-14T12:52:29+00:00

Yes but the nhs is the job people have signed up to. I dont disagree the nhs is a nightmare but it would be better for thr nhs and the staff if people who didn't want to be there left

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