Junior doctors are cutting back on food and heating amid cost of living crisis, BMA poll finds

The effects of the cost of living crisis in the UK have been brought into sharp focus with results from a BMA survey that has shown that junior doctors are having to cut back on food and heating their homes and are even regularly borrowing money from family and friends.The poll of 4553 junior doctors in England, carried out in November and December 2022,1 also found that some were struggling to repay balances on credit cards and often had overdrawn bank accounts. Nearly half (45%) of those surveyed said they had struggled to afford their rent or mortgage and half (51%) had difficulty paying to heat and light their homes in the past year, as the cost of living has skyrocketed.Thirty per cent of junior doctors had used their overdraft for consecutive months to pay bills, and a similar number (28%) said they had not repaid their credit card borrowing…
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