Partha Kar: We need to level up all staff, not level down doctors

After years of underfunding, being undervalued, and issues around pay and working conditions, something finally seems to have changed for doctors. Whisper it softly, but there seem to be signs that they’re acting more collectively against changes they disagree with in the healthcare system. I suspect that much of the credit must go to the younger generation, for speaking up and pushing back against learnt helplessness and reigniting the dedication to change.We’ve seen years of gradual decline. It’s easy to blame the system or pin it on politicians, but this decline in working conditions has been facilitated by many clinicians and, in some cases, doctors in management roles themselves. Over the last 25 years I’ve been in the NHS it’s been fascinating to watch how, in the drive to create a “level playing field,” we’ve managed to level down the whole system, rather than level up. The many examples include…
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