Peter Clayton

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Peter Clayton

Peter Clayton

@drpeterclayton

Fit GP who loves people, judo,weight training and my Honda 750 DCT. One of seven children from the happy poor.

Cornwall Katılım Kasım 2011
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Peter Clayton@drpeterclayton·
It's a hedge trimmer
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Jenny@Jennnyyyyyy·
Puzzle Time ⏰ What is the missing number?
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Junior doctors in this country are paid less per hour than the people who deliver their shopping. This is not a metaphor and it's not hyperbole; it's the actual hourly rate after a five-year degree, mounting debt, and the kind of training the rest of the world still sends its students here to receive. They are striking this week and the government's response has been to threaten to cut a thousand training places if they don't fold inside forty-eight hours. Think about what kind of person becomes a doctor in Britain in 2026. They know the pay. They know the hours. They know the system is short-staffed in ways that will haunt their entire careers. They do it anyway, because they are (like people going in teaching in 2026) the most precious and sainted kinds of lunatics, and because something in them still believes the work matters. That instinct is one of the most precious minearls this country owns. Naturally, government's instinct, as is its instinct whenever it encounters value, is to systematically beat and starve it to death. When the last of those people give up and go to Sydney or Toronto or just leave medicine altogether, the loss will not be visible for years. It will become evident later, in waiting lists nobody can clear, in cancers caught too late, in the slow disappearance of the assumption that if something terrible happens to your child there will be someone competent and present to help. You cannot rely on that saving grace any longer. We are eating the seed corn of British medicine, and the bill will be paid by people who don't even know yet that they are going to need it.
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Just heard @Emmabarnett on R4 sanctimoniously upbraiding @TheBMA for taking action to secure fair pay for doctors who've been shortchanged by govt. Barnett's BBC salary is between 400% to 750% higher than most resident doctors who save people's lives. What good does Barnett do?
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