Jim Webster wrote:

Unfortunately for them we are now in a bigger EU, and as far as I can
make out all those doctors can come here. I can see salaries lagging

Is that such a bad thing, salaries lagging? It seems to me that doctoring,
or GP at least, is becoming a 9 - 5 job with any overtime paid. The local
health trust has to provide the out of hours cover. So, either NI
contributions will have to increase substantially or doctors salaries will
have to be significantly reduced if "free at the point of delivery for all"
is to be sustained. In time, I can see the status of doctors declining in
the same way that the status of teachers has declined.

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