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Originally Posted by Cherie
doctors are part of the NHS too TS  |
Yes, if anyone needs a pay raise, it's a doctor.
(Actually I do appreciate that junior doctor's pay is far below international standards in this country, but still).
There are two options for why nurses are not also seeing a raise:
1) There are too many of them and it would hurt the government pocket too much,
2) The government didn't want to give that previous raise - one that a tonne of nurses didn't even really benefit from in practical terms - but they felt forced into it by nursing unions and now have sour grapes about it so are relishing "leaving them out" this time round.
It's probably a bit of both.