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Kate Plummer
Sep 13, 2023
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A junior doctor has shown the stark reality of NHS pay in a viral video.
Posting on TikTok, Dev Gakhar shared payslips showing how much NHS doctors make at an hourly rate and it isn't great.
For a Foundation Year 1 Doctor, which means a doctor in their first year of work after medical school, the hourly wage on the payslip was £14.08.
With the 40 hour week he works, this worked out as just under £2,400 a month before tax.
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It comes amid a widespread debate about junior doctors' pay.
Junior doctors have already staged five walkouts this year and will now strike again from 20 to 22 September and from 2 to 4 October.
The BMA says a 35 per cent pay rise is needed for junior doctors to make up for what it says are 15 years of below-inflation wage rises.
The government has given junior doctors 6 per cent plus £1,250, which works out at an average of nearly 9 per cent.
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