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(ANSA) – ROME, SEPTEMBER 05 – More than 1,000 doctors in Britain are considering resigning from the National Health Service (NHS) and moving abroad due to poor management of the coronavirus pandemic by the Boris Johnson government .
This was revealed by a survey published by The Guardian according to which doctors feel a strong sense of “frustration” and “disappointment”.
Those who do not intend to move abroad, are considering a period of rest from work or moving to the private sector, reveals the survey by the Association of Doctors of the United Kingdom.
Of 1,758 physicians surveyed across the UK, nearly seven in ten, 1,214 (69%), responded that “the pandemic and the government’s treatment of front-line physicians are pushing them out of” public health. When asked “where do you see yourself working in the next one to three years?”, Almost two-thirds – 1,143 (65%) – responded outside the NHS, a system already in crisis with more than 8,000 fewer doctors than that I would need.
The main reason for leaving the national health service, cited by 74% of those surveyed, is the lack of salary increase. Although London recently announced a 2.8% pay increase for many UK doctors, the measure does not apply to trainees or most general practitioners. Other main reasons are the lack of personal protective equipment (65%) at the worst moment of the health crisis caused by Covid-19 and the prohibition of doctors from speaking in public (54%). (HANDLE).
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