'Aiming for a restoration over pay to 2008 levels'
A junior doctor says she doesn’t believe “any doctor is worth 25% less than they were 10 years ago” as she prepares to take part in a strike demonstration over pay outside Lincoln County Hospital.
The three-day junior doctors strike will last up to and including Wednesday, March 15. On each day there will be two picket times – 7.30am-11am and 7.30pm.9.30pm to cover for shift changeover times.she is paid £14.09 per hour as a first year doctor. She is also having to pay back £400 a month on a private loan she got to cover her medical school fees, and a further £200 to her student debt.
Becky said: “Our pay has been cut by more than 25% over 10 years. I appreciate I only started working here last year, but being a second degree student I couldn’t access loan funding and had to borrow money.
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