Today another strike is affecting the NHS. The media have been interviewing people who have had operations cancelled due to the junior doctors strike. This same media have not paid as much attention to the way that NHS waiting lists have risen since the reforms which were made during the years of the coalition government.
NHS staff are leaving. The can have a better work-life balance outside the NHS. I know one person who left medicine and entered the restaurant trade because it was less stressful! In the surgery I work in, many doctors have left the surgery to work for more money and better hours elsewhere.
Before 2010, I knew one GP who moved to Australia because it was hard to get a job, there were so many GP's then. Now, the surgery I work in has had a vacancy for months for a GP.
The government say that they are making things better for those working in the NHS, but the facts are that loads of NHS workers are voting with their feet and leaving the NHS, many to work abroad instead.
