Dr Tanya (@veggieequallife) / X

Dr Tanya

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Dr Tanya

@veggieequallife

#ENT surgery doctor & former @NIHRresearch ACF researcher| @UKWENTS| @ENTIntegrate @BOARSENTUK Committee| Personal views. Retweets not endorsements 🌎🤓💃✊️🇵🇸

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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! 🦀🦀🦀
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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 £19 an hour. My salary is £40257 a year. Not £55900. #PayRestoration @BMA_JuniorDocs @doctors_vote
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-infor…
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-infor…
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Dr Tanya
@veggieequallife
Jul 10, 2023
This is a payslip of a FY1 doctor in the NHS. They are paid £14 an hour. They take home £1097 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
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Dr Tanya
@veggieequallife
Jul 28, 2025
As a specialist registrar doctor, I’m paid £29/hour after 6 years of med school, a master’s, expensive exams & 6 years on the frontline. We’re asking for me & my colleagues at the same level to be paid £7 more an hour to £36 to restore our pay. We intubate, operate, lead resus
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Dr Tanya
@veggieequallife
Jun 24, 2024
Repeat after me. It’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.
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Dr Tanya
@veggieequallife
Aug 2, 2025
“Doctors already earn more than the average! Greedy.” But being a doctor isn’t an average job! We resuscitate, intubate, operate, deliver babies, treat heart attacks & strokes. We’re there in your most vulnerable moments - making life-and-death decisions! It’s not arrogant to
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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 £100k student loan debts. Then, get told you are RANDOMLY allocated your first doctor job ANYWHERE in the country.
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Dr Tanya
@veggieequallife
Dec 28, 2023
£64,408-£73,961 for 37.5 hours a week. Chief Physcian Associate. £63,152 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?
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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 £19/h as a 4th year doctor.
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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 £ on courses Or you are not. There is no such thing as 'registrar-level' without any of the above.
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Dr Tanya
@veggieequallife
Jul 26, 2025
Caught up with a friend who moved to Australia as a doctor. Their contracted hours are 7:30am–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
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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 😅, he was so kind. He talked me through the case, discussed the topic and offered to sign a CBD off. I still remember this 😊
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Dr Tanya
@veggieequallife
Nov 2, 2023
House emergency. Plumber required at 4pm. No plumber available. Finally, a plumber can come out later for £170/h. Plumbers are worth their weight in gold. They are specialists. Yet, I'm being paid £28/h working in the middle of the night & £21/h day time as a 4th year doctor 🤯
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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'.
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.
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