Up to two-thirds of junior doctors are ‘looking to leave the NHS’

The British Medical Association quizzed nearly 4,000 junior doctors on whether they have ‘actively researched leaving the NHS’ in the last year and results showed that two-thirds had, while eight in ten said they ‘often think about leaving’ the health service.

 

In the survey, the BMA asked the extent to which junior doctors agreed that they ‘actively researched leaving the NHS in the last 12 months’.  Of the 3,819 who responded in November and December, 65 per cent said they agreed.  Additionally, 79 per cent said they ‘often think about leaving the NHS’.

 

Dr Robert Laurenson co-chair of the BMA junior doctors committee, said “When eight in ten junior doctors say they often think about leaving the NHS, this should be a real wake-up call for the Government to come to the table and address our concerns.”

 

He went on to accuse the Government of “ignoring our calls to meet’.  The Department of Health and Social Care has so far stuck to a four-year pay deal agreed in 2019, before the cost of living crisis.

 

The BMA has previously said it is ‘deeply concerned’ that the pay erosion will ‘continue to drive doctors out of the profession, leading to a vicious cycle of dwindling staff numbers and worsening patient care’.

 

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Posted by Tony May, Partner/head of Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

 

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