@JohnWight1 He was born in Judea of Jewish parents and lived in Galilee, in Israel.
Palestine didn't exist at the time.
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DarkTwin2016
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DarkTwin2016
@JRuari
Writer, occasional blogger, observer and sometime participant in major economic and social issues and events.
Wiltshire Entrou em Temmuz 2016
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Day 162 of posting this until @wesstreeting comes to the table with a credible offer on jobs and pay
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@trentconsultant How do today's working hours for resident doctor compare with working hours for junior doctors in 2008?
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@JRuari These are average consultant pay per whole time equivalent out of NHS digital.
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When Government says your pay is up over the last four years they are correct, but so is everyone else’s. Compared to 2008 however consultant pay is up 30%, average workers pay 68% and comparator professions 79%. We’re still paying for bankers, we’re not paying for Trump too.
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@Nico2lette @affleckquine @PeterDilworth1 You do realise that most German healthcare is delivered by the private sector?
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@JRuari @affleckquine @PeterDilworth1 Am in awe of William Blake……the system is wrong if you need charity. Germany also flies cancer patients to cities that specialise in specific areas of treatment. Where bigger equipment is based.
The point is tho ….a healthcare needs investment….and constant research.
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Labour will not train new doctors - presumably to replace them with unqualified staff.
•Since 2008 MPs pay has increased by 60% from £61k to £99k
•Since 2008 doctors pay has increased by 37% from £28k to £39k. Allowing for inflation a pay cut of 30%
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Doctors lose new jobs package as strike to go ahead bbc.in/4doDCgc
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@thecraftybeggar Which magic money tree do you suggest that huge pay rise comes from?
If there was any decency in this country, everyone would be paid above average, don't you agree?
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@JRuari The entire workforce in this country should get a huge pay rise in line at least with inflation. Over 7 million workers live in relative poverty. This is about Doctors and they absolutely deserve their demands are met.
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They’re deliberately destroying the NHS. They’re not harming doctors, doctors can work anywhere in the world. They’re harming the NHS and patients. One doctor sees an average of 20-30 patients a day. Do the maths! 20-30 thousand patients a day wont get seen.
Dr Haseena Wazir@DrHWazir
Tonight, @Keir_Starmer and @wesstreeting have decided to cut the number of offered specialist training jobs for doctors. Doctors need these jobs to train to become the specialist Consultants and GPs of the future that the NHS so desperately needs. Instead, this Government has decided to make it harder for you to see a specialist and is effectively holding doctors’ jobs hostage. We are already an under-doctored country compared to other OECD countries. In 2025, around 40,000 doctors applied for just 10,000 speciality training jobs. That means tens of thousands of qualified doctors ready to train, ready to work, and ready to treat patients are being turned away every year. The Government can train more specialist doctors when they want to. They are simply choosing not to. Remember this the next time you can’t get an appointment or your surgery is delayed.
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“You cannot simultaneously argue that doctors are so essential that their strikes cause unacceptable harm, and that the solution is to design them out of clinical care. These positions are mutually exclusive.
Doctors’ Association UK@TheDA_UK
DAUK responds to NHS England chief executive’s threat to reduce reliance on doctors dauk.org/dauk-responds-…
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@LP1980AA @d_magpie I genuinely know noone who wants a US system.
Poss unlike you, many Brits travel to other countries & experience their healthcare. What we want is something that works as well as, eg, Spain, France, Italy, Germany & Australia
Coincidentally, all public funded-private delivered.
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@Bodysatnav We'll have the same number of doctors but not as many higher-paid specialists drawn ftom them.
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Another one mess. Starmer playing tough with doctors seeking a decent living wage, tell us he'll cut training places SO WE WILL HAVE FEWER DOCTORS. Brilliant. What a guy.
Diane Abbott@HackneyAbbott
This is bizarre and unjustifiable. Starmer is punishing the NHS, meaning all of us, because he cannot force doctors to accept his pay offer. Voters will remember this in May. Starmer withdraws offer of extra training places to punish resident doctors thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…
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@LindaHeyworth4 @fletchjack The public sector funded-private sector delivered model works rather well for Germany, which I thought you and your comrades wanted to imitate?
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@fletchjack Prepping for a corporate sell off: so much of the NHS is outsourced - it's not good for anyone or the nation, only for the greedy neoliberal usurpers, the NHS snatchers - every govt since Thatcher complicit, Lansley, Hunt, Blair, Brown et al.
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This is awful.
The NHS cut the number of radiology trainees between 2022 and last year.
4011 qualified doctors applied for just 356 jobs in radiology last year.
That means we turned away 3655 doctors whilst scans are piling up.
Cuts to training numbers don’t help anyone.
Good Morning Britain@GMB
New analysis of NHS data shows that from January to September 2025, more than 700,000 scan results were not given to patients within the recommended 28 days. Liz Hand, who received a stage four cancer diagnosis in November last year, explains how 'scanxiety' impacted her. @DrAmirKhanGP joins her as he shares his tips on how to manage scanxiety.
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@Bodley15911089 @fletchjack @barbaraanneken1 Germany has a larger total GDP so yes, its very similar %age of GDP spent on healthcare does translate into higher spend per capita.
France has a slightly smaller GDP than UK and its healthcare spend is very similar so per capita spend is also very adjacent.
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@fletchjack @barbaraanneken1 Genuinely supporting the NHS means
Funding it
The NHS receives less per head than other comparable countries like France and Germany
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@DpcGem @fletchjack You'd have thought that would be clear to anyone with two brain cells to rub together - but apparently not.
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Jack, strikes by you colleagues cost money paying for cover etc. I don't think anyone disputes this fact. Surely if you take your BMA goggles off for a sec its pretty much common sense that if you all strike and cost the NHS money, they will have less money available for extra training posts etc?
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@Nico2lette @affleckquine @PeterDilworth1 Charity contributions are not included in overall expenditure, afaiaa.
Their impact is important although marginal - but does tend to further expose the expenditure priorities of the NHS and DHSS.
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@JRuari @affleckquine @PeterDilworth1 Seen both systems in action. Europe is far better overall. Brits are mugged. Germans don’t do charity…. did you allow for that factor? Brits healthcare is propped up by many charities.
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@affleckquine @Nico2lette @PeterDilworth1 Germany spends about the same %age of its GDP - 11-12% - on healthcare as the UK does. I expect you know that just fine.
It chooses to spend it differently. It also chooses to use private sector & local municipalities to deliver it. By all means, follow Germany's example.
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@Nico2lette @PeterDilworth1 The government has brought US companies into the NHS so god help us all. Germany, like most European countries, spends a lot more of their GDP on healthcare.
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@affleckquine Who else has had a near-30% pay rise in the past two years?
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@affleckquine Labour WILL continue to train new doctors, within the cap on initial places demanded by the BMA & implemented by previous Labour government.
The current "training places" issue is about speciality training.
Do you want fewer, higher paid doctors or more but at slightly less?
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@DrSteveTaylor Who was it demanded a cap on training places at their conference in 2008 and had their demand met by the then government?
Initial training places, not speciality, which is the current issue.
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Private sector, you see a Dr. In the NHS, the plan is for you to see anyone but a Dr. That is a political choice, & it is putting lives at risk
UK already has fewer Drs per head than 🇪🇺
No other nation is responding to that gap by designing Drs out of patient care
Training more!
Doctors’ Association UK@TheDA_UK
DAUK responds to NHS England chief executive’s threat to reduce reliance on doctors dauk.org/dauk-responds-…
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@SJG99 @RealismHelps @simonwatt85 @Keir_Starmer How do working hours compare?
(the contention that their pay has bern eroded more is highly debatable, btw)
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@JRuari @RealismHelps @simonwatt85 @Keir_Starmer The point is that resident doctors pay has been eroded more. That's why they need a higher rise now to catch up with everyone else.
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Labour are actually going to cancel specialist doctors training posts.
Depriving us all of the senior doctors we need, just to spite the underpaid junior doctors .
Shame on you @Keir_Starmer and @wesstreetin. #wato #r4today
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@JRuari @coralivesey Cos they are scared they would accept it and not demand even more and more.
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The removal of 1,000 UK training places for doctors opens the NHS privatisation door still wider.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting (with his tiny majority) is a catastrophic failure for our NHS.
It’s not the doctors’ training places which should be removed, but Wes Streeting.
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