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Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real by walthamstow on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @08:37AM (#37404230)
The NHS is a monopsony employer and has hardly any competition, I don't think the limit on trainees has any effect on salary. Surely if what you're saying is true, junior doctors would not be paid less per hour than someone working in Aldi.

A friend of mine runs a successful business bringing over doctors from the Philippines, Pakistan, etc to work in the NHS, so the gap gets filled that way.

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Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real by shaftoe444 on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @09:58AM (#37405229)
If that's true why aren't they going to work at Aldi?
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Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real by walthamstow on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @11:08AM (#37406282)
Salary progression is the most obvious reason but don't discount the effect of morality and ethics.

I know two junior doctors, one is working in Australia and the other is still in the NHS and would never countenance leaving no matter how rational a decision it may appear.

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Re:The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real by hathchip on Thursday September 07, 2023 @01:30PM (#37422494)
> I don't think the limit on trainees has any effect on salary

This is far from true. On the margin, doctors can work in the private sector or leave the country. Only a few choose to do so, but this is (among other reasons) because the NHS always has to respond to price pressure to keep that small number from growing to where it causes shortages.

Recently a change in how pension contributions are taxed was pushed through almost entirely because it affected senior doctors. If the NHS had pricing power as you suggest, why wouldn't they just tell doctors to pay up?

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