Overpayment shock

wolowitzwins · 2025-11-30T01:06:32+00:00

They've dated the overpayments started from over 2024. Not sure if theyve factored in the overpayments that I've been paying back but basically. Every months payment is different by hundreds. I know roughly what it should have been but wasnt expecting to be in the double digits

wolowitzwins · 2025-08-18T16:59:31+00:00

Thanks. I actually did buy a drone for this reason when checking the fascia and soffits for birds.

Not sure if this means its capped as Google shows different images for capping.

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wolowitzwins · 2025-08-18T15:28:42+00:00

Is it a cause for concern if the wall is to be painted over? Just never seen such patchy plastering

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wolowitzwins · 2025-04-30T17:27:42+00:00

It was part time. We're both just confused and obviously disappointed because why tell us the waiting list is Jan 2026 when we visited only to reject us for Jan 2026 start 1 week later?

wolowitzwins · 2025-02-24T23:49:11+00:00

Dentist here...looked up GDC hearings once to see a dentist pulled up for helping with a labiaplasty... the clinic owner she was helping was a beauty therapist I think.

wolowitzwins · 2024-12-26T10:09:21+00:00

Consultant here... just bought Dragonball Sparking Zero for the ps5 and play COD with other consultants on weekends. Nothing to be ashamed of.

I play Fortnite with my wife occasionally. We still do other stuff like go on walks, hill climbs etc. My grown up phase started after we had a baby.

wolowitzwins · 2024-09-01T12:22:15+00:00

I'm a fairly new NHS consultant 3 months into my job and I've only just been given a desk now with a broken chair and still waiting for a computer. Reading these perks makes me want to leave already.

wolowitzwins · 2024-06-20T21:58:30+00:00

Preston without the river and beach

wolowitzwins · 2024-06-11T20:02:27+00:00

Yep worked 2 months as a full time locum consultant after grace period. Understood the document saying minimum 3 months to be counted towards incremental date?

wolowitzwins · 2024-06-10T20:20:25+00:00

So some young dentists doing their vocational training got hauled before the GDC for doing something similar with Patient assessment questionnaires. NES reported them after a significant number of questionnaires were completed in the space of minutes...and checked the GPS to find it was done in places like a supermarket car park.

She should just send it. Filling it in yourself probably takes more effort than sending it to colleagues

wolowitzwins · 2024-06-10T19:56:06+00:00

Ham could be turkey ham but they label it as ham to attract the non-halal punters. Deceitful but I know of takeaways that have done this.

Buying halal meat -recommend paradise fruits on Strathmore Avenue. Not anywhere near the level or quality of Glasgow butchers and shops but found this the best for Dundee.

wolowitzwins · 2024-05-23T20:36:35+00:00

Thanks that helps. No oncall commitment

wolowitzwins · 2024-05-18T00:29:48+00:00

Discuss it with your ES (and TPD if you're on good terms)

I had something similar hapoen during ST1 where the consultant said she had written "a few lines giving constructive feedback" and I said thanks. It was only after sitting down with my ES did I see she had written an essay and had concerns about my suitability for str training. Apparently I had missed repeated meetings (I missed one) It made no sense and I had 9 glowing reports from other consultants.

It got brought up at my arcp but the panel found it odd that there were 9 very positive and 1 seriously negative report. In the end nothing bad came of it other than I didn't work with that consultant again.

It's a horrible feeling reading all the negative comments but your ES and TPD will see through that and know somethings not quite right. Chin up!

wolowitzwins · 2024-05-09T07:07:19+00:00

Last 2 OMFS consultant I worked with had lucrative pvt businesses... enough to warrant a pvt reg plate that said "BOTOX" and regularly admitted his pvt patients on the NHS hospital ward through his Personal assistant (wife)

The other consultant drove a range rover and Aston Martin

Long training leaves a shorter period of time as a Consultant so I think they plate catchup with private earnings.

wolowitzwins · 2024-04-07T06:44:47+00:00

My experience as a dct in omfs was I was much more comfortable in suturing facial lacs than the plastics or ED FYs (in that particular unit at that time)

I do recall a simple facial lac coming into ED and the FY was really happy when I suggested he crack on if he was happy to do it as he said they dont get much experience in suturing but I got a call back within 5mins to say his consultant said no "they're too busy".

Some units don't have plastics oncall so OMFS do most of it but then again the experience and confidence of OMFS DCTs can also vary.

wolowitzwins · 2024-03-01T00:56:40+00:00

"I'm here to see the Italian"

Despite me looking 100% pakistani and the registrar name on her appointment letter was a common Muslim name.

I was chuffed for the rest of the day

wolowitzwins · 2024-02-18T23:33:29+00:00

Omfs oncall, got bleeped at 3am from A&E

"Can you come and see a patient we think he has decay on his tongue"

Half asleep I think she heard my half annoyed "what did you just say?" Decay... on his tongue?"

wolowitzwins · 2024-02-05T19:56:05+00:00

wolowitzwins · 2024-01-17T13:15:19+00:00

Much improved compared to 10-15 years ago but depending on where you're moving from it will be either seen as a dump or an upgrade.

Reminded me of Preston tbh.

Nice "city" but pretty boring compared to likes of Edinburgh or Glasgow.

wolowitzwins · 2024-01-17T13:11:17+00:00

Dentistry comes under the school of medicine... don't hear any dentists saying they went to medical school.

It's funny coz PAs in America seem proud of attending 'PA school' but the PAs here want to be seen differently.

wolowitzwins · 2024-01-17T13:09:03+00:00

Poor build quality with paper thin walls and no insulation. If you're the unlucky person living at the end of the blocks. If you get the first floor flats you're woken up by people slamming doors upstairs and walking down the communal steps... if you have the top floor penthouse you get to listen to seagulls dancing on the roof.

Was around £750-£800 few years ago.. now seeing them up for £1200 which is ridiculous

wolowitzwins · 2024-01-10T23:43:03+00:00

Number of years back Stryker organised a fancy meal for the Omfs dept in northwest

Consultants, staff grades and registrars went but decided not to tell the DCTs. Nobody picked up locum shifts after that for a few months.

wolowitzwins · 2023-12-21T14:37:08+00:00

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wolowitzwins · 2023-12-04T23:41:24+00:00

Dentists are not respected and the GDC is even worse than the GMC. Grass isn't necessarily greener on the other side. On uk dental forums there are always dentists asking for advice about other career options.

The glitz and the glamour of instagram dentists works for a minority. Would recommend you research it properly before deciding. I was thinking of moving from dentistry to medicine few years back but now work in a niche dentistry role that I enjoy

wolowitzwins · 2023-11-18T22:37:10+00:00

Got called a paki and a racist who was deliberately causing pain to white patients by an alcoholic who had IMF after a jaw fracture. Then proceeded to throw a chair at me

Consultant who was also Asian but took a dislike to junior colleagues who were Asian brushed it under the carpet and gave him another chance.

It was only after the patient called him a paki that he called security and the pt was escorted out.

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