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Originally Posted by jfman
The facts are if we aren't paying enough we won't get the workforce from our own population. People will go and do something else.
Basic supply and demand.
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So what other high paying jobs are they going into? That for me is the unexplained mystery. They know the pay levels and conditions before they even start the degree course.
The central problem with employment pf medical staff, is that they know there is always locum work readily available because they have resigned from the NHS. Difficult to clamp down down on, but needs doing as the situation isn't going to improve any other way. GPs can be paid so much, that they can retire early or work part-time. Again a situation that cannot be sustained.
It was highlighted back in 1980 that the increase in the number of women training to be doctors was going to be a problem. Somebody from the medical school at Birmingham, pointed out that it took twice as many women to be trained to end up with a trained female doctor, than it took men to end up with a male doctor. That was because so many women dropped out or didn't continue. Probably nowadays that isn't so severe, but that impact will still be there.