Thatcher's friends | IMGpapers 1980

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YOUR analysis of the recent doctor's pay settlement ( May) was restricted to a front-page denunciation of the 'huge wage in'Thatcher's friends' class 101 including 'well-healed (sic) docThis analysis is woefully inadequate, in not reacuonary and £2.00 dangerous.

, begin with, a clear majori. 17A0 ty of doctors are neither well-paid 15.00 Junior doctors, 2.50 for example, are almost invariably contracted to work some 80 hours 4.00 1.00 overtime — and in practice frequently work 100 plus hours a 1U.U0 week Overtime, it shobld be noted, is paid at one-third normal rate, not time and a third. 3.50 Tale is intrerore less inan many 10.00 nurses and ancillary workers.

these and other doctors are on 10.00 call for many, nights which great-.

ly restricts personal life!

All this occairs in a situation of.. demoralisation caused by staff: