Log inSign up
Dr Tanya
16.9K posts
Image
user avatar
Dr Tanya
@veggieequallife
#ENT surgery doctor & former @NIHRresearch ACF researcher| @UKWENTS| @ENTIntegrate @BOARSENTUK Committee| Personal views. Retweets not endorsements ๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿ’ƒโœŠ๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐ŸŒโœˆ๏ธ๐ŸŒ
Joined January 2016
3,337
Following
5,252
Followers
  • Pinned
    user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Dec 25, 2023
    I just want to say I am INCREDIBLY proud of the vast number of doctors (all grades) for speaking up and calling out the unacceptable pay & treatments of UK doctors. The movement is contagious & won't just blow over. We are the change we need! ๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿฆ€๐Ÿฆ€
    96K
  • user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Apr 14, 2023
    This is misleading. I am a 3rd year doctor at Core Training level or Specialist Registrar Level 1. Here is my payslip. I get paid ยฃ19 an hour. My salary is ยฃ40257 a year. Not ยฃ55900. #PayRestoration @BMA_JuniorDocs @doctors_vote
    Image
    
Junior Doctorโ€™s mean earnings
Foundation year 1 doctors:  over ยฃ37,000
Foundation year 2 doctors: over ยฃ43,300
Junior Doctors in core training: ยฃ55,900
Speciality registrars: over ยฃ62,900

Source: NHS England Earnings Statistics, average earnings per person in the 12-months to December 2022 NHS Trusts and Core Organisations in England. Includes additional earnings on top of basic pay, including pay for additional hours and shift work.
    user avatar
    Department of Health and Social Care
    @DHSCgovuk
    Apr 13, 2023
    The BMA has demanded a 35% pay rise for junior doctors. Here's their current average pay rates at different levels. digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inforโ€ฆ
    Readers added context
    The industrial dispute with Junior Doctors is over basic pay and these figures do not represent basic pay. It includes additional earnings on top of basic earnings, including pay for additional hours and compulsory shift work. digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inforโ€ฆ
    1.7M
  • user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Jul 10, 2023
    This is a payslip of a FY1 doctor in the NHS. They are paid ยฃ14 an hour. They take home ยฃ1097 a month. 70k+ in debt for student loan after 5/6 years of medical school. This is not fair. You can't blame doctors for leaving. #PayRestoration @BMA_JuniorDocs @doctors_vote
    Image
    517K
  • user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Jul 28, 2025
    As a specialist registrar doctor, Iโ€™m paid ยฃ29/hour after 6 years of med school, a masterโ€™s, expensive exams & 6 years on the frontline. Weโ€™re asking for me & my colleagues at the same level to be paid ยฃ7 more an hour to ยฃ36 to restore our pay. We intubate, operate, lead resus
    214K
  • user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Jun 24, 2024
    Repeat after me. Itโ€™s NOT elitist for doctors to call out & legally challenge any dangerous practice of blurring the line between doctors and other associates. It's NOT elitist for doctors to band together under a strong union or an advocate group to protect patient safety.
    26K
  • user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Aug 2, 2025
    โ€œDoctors already earn more than the average! Greedy.โ€ But being a doctor isnโ€™t an average job! We resuscitate, intubate, operate, deliver babies, treat heart attacks & strokes. Weโ€™re there in your most vulnerable moments - making life-and-death decisions! Itโ€™s not arrogant to
    97K
  • user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Mar 7, 2024
    Imagine. Spending 5/6 years of your life studying Medicine. Stressing over countless exams. Ensuring you're good and safe enough to be a doctor. Coming out with ยฃ100k student loan debts. Then, get told you are RANDOMLY allocated your first doctor job ANYWHERE in the country.
    99K
  • user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Dec 28, 2023
    ยฃ64,408-ยฃ73,961 for 37.5 hours a week. Chief Physcian Associate. ยฃ63,152 for 40 hours. ST8 doctor in their 8th year registrar with at least 10 years of being a doctor. 1. What can a PA do that a ST8 doctor cannot? 2. Why can't the PA role money be used to employ more doctors?
    151K
  • user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Aug 27, 2023
    My partner now earns 15k more than I do yearly. We are the same age. He works 37 hours a week. He did a 3 year degree paid by his company. He works hard but he gets financially compensated. He is enraged on my behalf that I am paid ยฃ19/h as a 4th year doctor.
    170K
  • user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Mar 6, 2024
    You are either a surgical registrar by obtaining a medical degree, doing at least 5 years+ postgraduate training with on-calls as a doctor, passing MRCS, spending thousands of ยฃ on courses Or you are not. There is no such thing as 'registrar-level' without any of the above.
    43K
  • user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Jul 26, 2025
    Caught up with a friend who moved to Australia as a doctor. Their contracted hours are 7:30amโ€“3:30pm, 5 days a week. Paid significantly more than what they earned in the NHS working 48+ hrs/week. Every single 10 mins after 3:30pm is logged and paid as overtime. Let that sink
    134K
  • user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Nov 19, 2023
    As an F1, once I rang a speciality reg on call for advice on my patients, a consultant picked up. Instead of grilling me for my limited knowledge ๐Ÿ˜…, he was so kind. He talked me through the case, discussed the topic and offered to sign a CBD off. I still remember this ๐Ÿ˜Š
    180K
  • user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Nov 2, 2023
    House emergency. Plumber required at 4pm. No plumber available. Finally, a plumber can come out later for ยฃ170/h. Plumbers are worth their weight in gold. They are specialists. Yet, I'm being paid ยฃ28/h working in the middle of the night & ยฃ21/h day time as a 4th year doctor ๐Ÿคฏ
    138K
  • user avatar
    Dr Tanya
    @veggieequallife
    Sep 16, 2024
    If you want to be a doctor & do what a doctor does. Please go to medical school. Nothing else is 'equivalent'.
    user avatar
    PA Stephen Nash
    @pa_StephenNash
    Sep 14, 2024
    Replying to @LittlePersonDoc
    3 + 2 makes 5. Come on now. Just because you repeat it enough times does not make it true.
    28K

New to X?

Sign up now to get your own personalized timeline!

Create account

By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, including Cookie Use.

TermsยทPrivacyยทCookiesยทAccessibilityยทAds infoยทยฉ 2026 X Corp.
Don't miss what's happening
People on X are the first to know.
Log inSign up
Advertisement
Advertisement