Senior doctors threaten exodus over work load -... -
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Published on: 6/26/2005
Last Visited: 6/26/2005
Dr Christine Robison, deputy chair of the BMA,s SAS Committee, said: ,In many departments they underpin and create the stability in the health service.
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Robison said there were signs they were ready to seek more lucrative work.
,Some staff-grade doctors who work in A&E departments throughout the country are already leaving their posts to work out-of-hours for NHS24 because they are paid so much more to do that,, she said.
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Robison, an associate specialist in anaesthetics at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, said that although they weren,t anticipating ,huge, pay rises, they were seeking a better career structure which would allow them to progress.
She said: ,Once you have reached the top of the staff-grade salary, you are then stuck, you can,t go any higher other than the annual cost of living rise.