So much for anything the Conservatives may tell us about putting more money into the health service and training more medical professionals to fill the gaping shortage left by underfunding, overwork and burn out. It’s because of the extra work doctors have had to perform due to the crisis that so many are leaving the NHS. We need new doctors, not to mention more nurses and other medical professionals, trained up. But the Tories really don’t want to spend the money. The excellent Maximilien Robespierre has put up a short video on his YouTube channel reporting that it costs £160,000 to train a doctor until he or she graduates. Some of this is paid by the students themselves in their tuition fees. But it still costs the state, and so the Tories have instructed the universities not train so many. Those universities that do will be fine £100,000.
Other countries are also experiencing problems training doctors and medical staff, but they also have better access to foreign doctors to fill the vacancies. But we don’t. Thanks to Brexit, 4,000 of the 37,000 foreign doctors working in the NHS have since left.
All this is, as the Sea-Green Incorruptible explains, done to keep two of the various factions in the Tory party happy. The block on spending money is to keep the small government Tories on side, while the ban on foreign recruitment is to placate the bigots and racists. And in the meantime ordinary people face queues and cancellations, while the doctors that remain are worked to point of exhaustion and beyond.
But still, they’ve got to give those big tax cuts to their rich donors.
Tags: Brexit, Conservatives, Corporate Donors, doctors, NHS, Tax Cuts, the Rich, Tuition Fees, Universities, Youtube
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January 28, 2023 at 7:55 pm |
Sea green incorruptible? What’s that?
January 28, 2023 at 9:58 pm |
I think it’s what they used to call the real Robespierre, because he used to wear green suits. 🙂 I’d thought I’d use it as a fun nickname for the Maximilien Robespierre youtuber.