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[QUOTE][B]More than 100 doctors and consultants retired with pension pots worth more than £3.5million last year, it has emerged, as the country prepares for the first doctors’ strike in 37 years this week.[/B]
Some 35,000 medical staff are set to take industrial action over changes to their retirement schemes, and will only see patients for emergency treatment.
The single day’s action will result in 1.2 million lost GP appointments, and tens of thousands of operations.
New NHS figures have revealed that 104 doctors retired recently with pension pots equivalent to £3.5million in the private sector, receiving at least £78,000 each year for the rest of their lives and a lump sum of at least £234,000.
One GP retired at 60 and received a £334,871 tax-free lump sum with payments of £111,623 each year for life.
There are also more than 23,000 retired doctors receiving at least £37,000 each year.
Simon Burns, the health minister, said: “When the NHS pension scheme routinely pays out six –figure pensions for doctors, everyone can see the
system is unsustainable.”
The British Medical Association said the changes proposed by ministers will mean senior doctors having to pay 14.5 per cent of the salaries for their
pensions, while younger staff will have to work to 68.
They added the changes are unfair because the scheme was only renegotiated four years ago, and it will mean doctors paying twice as much for the
same pensions as some civil servants.
Under the Government’s plans, the annual pension received by doctors earning £120,000 a year, which is about the average doctor’s salary, will still
be more than £48,000.
Doctors aged 40 will have to work two extra years to qualify for that sum – until they are 62 rather than 60.
Doctors presently aged 24 will have to work until they are 67 for their full pension.
Mr Burns added: “The public will not understand why doctors are going on strike when they have this excellent pension deal on the table.”
Health secretary Andrew Lansley said: “No one should be under any illusions: the planned BMA strike will be bad for patients.
“It will lead to operations being cancelled, appointments rescheduled and patients put through unnecessary concern.
“During the last NHS strikes, the union failed to live up to their agreements, which led to some patients not getting the treatment they needed.
“Some were left for hours unattended.
“I would urge all doctors thinking about going on strike to reconsider and put patients first.”
Dr Hamish Meldum, chairman of the BMA, said: “We know that doctors are making huge efforts to plan ahead and ensure patient safety is not affected
by the day of action.”
A YouGov survey earlier this month revealed almost two-thirds of the public oppose moves by doctors to take industrial action over their pensions.
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£350,000 per doctor then?
One thing this fails to mention is the fact that doctors put more in than they get out already.
Doctors deserve more money anyway, at least compared to the other people that have higher salaries than them.
[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;36373274]Doctors deserve more money anyway, at least compared to the other people that have higher salaries than them.[/QUOTE]
Totally agree with this, I'd rather have doctors with high salaries than a few top-men from some big businesses grab 50% of their company to themselves.
And footballers make that in a week.... sensationalist indeed.
I don't think people are fussed with military, emergency service, medical or teaching staff and personnel getting pensions (they all do jobs no-one else does), but it's civil servants and the like that tend to piss people off.
It could be better balanced out though. My mum has worked for the NHS as a nurse and a learning disabilities support worker for over twenty years, but she can't afford to opt into the pension scheme. Making it easier for lower paid staff to be able to pay into a pension would help the UK in the long run.
[QUOTE=NeonpieDFTBA;36373241]One thing this fails to mention is the fact that doctors put more in than they get out already.[/QUOTE]
We all do
[QUOTE=bull3tmagn3t;36372588]£350,000 per doctor then?[/QUOTE]
...no...?
Money sign you just did 35,000...
A highly skilled, highly stressful, well paying and incredibly important job getting a pension worth saving?
They deserve it.
Doesn't help that med school in the US costs a seventh of that, at least.
It's just so retarded that you need doctors, and you'll need them more and more due to increased average lifespan, yet you make them make literally pay 8 kidneys to afford the study.
Doctors deserve every penny of that money, anybody who says otherwise needs to fuck right off.
If there's anyone that deserves a good pension, it's a Doctor. I'm ok with this
[QUOTE=Clementine;36374308]...no...?
Money sign you just did 35,000...[/QUOTE]
It's a pound, British pound, what concerns me more is why you couldn't just type the sign...
Well deserved.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;36374334]A highly skilled, highly stressful, well paying and incredibly important job getting a pension worth saving?
They deserve it.[/QUOTE]
Nurses and other Technical medical staff deserve it just as much, but are way less likely to get it.
If doctors charge insane amounts of money to their patients like in America, giving a massive middle finger to the hyppocrat's oath, then fuck them. Hard.
If the health care system in the UK is somewhat fair, I see no problem with this, it's a stressful and important job.
[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;36384469]If doctors charge insane amounts of money to their patients like in America, giving a massive middle finger to the hyppocrat's oath, then fuck them. Hard.
If the health care system in the UK is somewhat fair, I see no problem with this, it's a stressful and important job.[/QUOTE]
Ughhh the NHS is free for patients.
cut it in half and give the rest to the underpaid nurses and other staff
[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;36384469]If doctors charge insane amounts of money to their patients like in America, giving a massive middle finger to the hyppocrat's oath, then fuck them. Hard.
If the health care system in the UK is somewhat fair, I see no problem with this, it's a stressful and important job.[/QUOTE]
The Brits are damn dirty socialists man
well yeah
med school is horrifically expensive
[QUOTE=-Get_A_Life-;36384469]If doctors charge insane amounts of money to their patients like in America, giving a massive middle finger to the hyppocrat's oath, then fuck them. Hard.
If the health care system in the UK is somewhat fair, I see no problem with this, it's a stressful and important job.[/QUOTE]
Yes because charging money for their often hard working services makes them assholes. You seem like more of an asshole for not appreciating the full extent of what they do.
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