What do you think about the pay for junior doctors? Do you agree with reader Thelma Thompson? Send your letters to starmailshropshirestar.co.uk
Junior doctors undertake at least five years training at largely their own expense, followed by more training, and their pay starts at around £29,000 per annum. Yet they have huge responsibilities - our lives are often in their hands. Is this fair?
I think not, especially with the cost of housing. The way to fund better pay for them and the NHS is to make older people carry on paying National Insurance and modest amounts for prescriptions. After all we continue to pay to insure our houses and our cars - so why not ourselves? I wonder how many MPs we would get if they were paid £29,000 to start with?Email us at [email protected] or write to: Shropshire Star Letters, Midland News Association, 51-53 Queen Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1ES. Letters MUST include the writer’s name, address and telephone number. Letters will only be published anonymously in exceptional circumstances.
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