Truss (general uk sucks thread)

alistair

Millsy it’s excellent and my wife was able to see a specialist within a week the other month. It comes out my tax free allowance

Cankles-McJeggings

Millsy

That’s quite good. Ours is $300 (£170)a month for 2 adults and 2 kids. Excess of $500 for major surgery. I had 2 surgeries over the last year which would have cost well in excess of 30k aud and only had to pay 2×500 excess.

Millsy

Cankles-McJeggings my excess is £80. Paid once for first treatment (each claimant, but not per claim) and then that’s it for the year. My company has a mutual supplier relationship with BUPA so we get a preferential deal.

Smallman1

Most decent companies offer healthcare, i’ve got it and it’s very useful.

Cankles-McJeggings

Smallman1

That’s absolute utter shite. Probably in your Tarquin network though yeh.

Cankles-McJeggings

Millsy

Does that include all dental? 30 quid wouldn’t even cover a check up scale and polish.

benson

Cankles-McJeggings Also loads of us are stopping private practice as the rates are rubbish. 24 years ago BUPA paid £325 to the anaesthetist for a hip replacement (2 hours all in). Today they pay £325. Rates have not budged at all. Surgeons get about 2-3 times what anaesthetists get.

Amps

As already noted, those with private healthcare are in the minority in this country, and if the NHS was funded properly, it could be as good as any private healthcare that is currently available. It’s currently in a state, because they choose to have it that way, it’s not a mystery, it’s not something ‘complicated’ that nobody can sort out, it’s a political choice to trash it and then sell it as if they had no choice.

Amps

benson

alistair The top rate of tax is 60%, the marginal rate of taxation between 100k and about 125k. As you lose your personal allowance you essentially pay an extra 20% tax. And people do avoid paying it by avoiding overtime. That is another reason the NHS is fucked. I am not going to work for a headline rate of £1000 / day only to give £600 of that to the government.

bosstrabs

benson I am not going to work for a headline rate of £1000 / day only to give £600 of that to the government.

Good to know you’re in healthcare for all the right reasons.

Dubman

benson
one of my old customers is a retired NHS consultant anaethetist. He used to work 2-3 times per week for a private hospital. He said it’s an old boys club as the surgeon’s want their old friends they used to work with at the NHS.

benson

bosstrabs not burning out and working 60 hours a week all my life.

I’m currently doing 12 hour nightshifts. I’m doing those because we don’t have enough junior doctors.

It’s reasonable to work overtime for a rate of pay that makes it worth doing.

benson

Dubman now they are just desperate for anaesthetists. Younger generation have changed their work life balance outlook. Marginal rate of tax of 60% means people value their time more than the take home from doing overtime.

The pension changes brought in since I started in 2004 have cost be the best part of £250k in extra contributions and reduced benefits. Our pay has gone down by 30% in real terms since 2008.

The goodwill that kept the nhs afloat is fast disappearing.

bosstrabs

benson I’m currently doing 12 hour nightshifts

Yeah, fair dos. That’s fucking shit.

I did two weeks’ nightshifts on a 24-hour garage when I was at uni during holidays. Never, never again would I work nightshifts, even for a 100% pay rise.

benson

bosstrabs I used to do 7 nights every 7-8 weeks. For years. Used to do it as 7 nights on the trot for a few months. Every 8 weeks I’d do 9pm to midday for 7 nights.

To be honest I’d be happy doing more operations in the daytime. For the sane pay. But it’s so disorganised. And I have no input into that.

benson

bosstrabs oh and in return for doing a night shift of 12 hours, I get 2 normal days off. A normal day is 10 hours 0730-1730.

bosstrabs

The worst thing about it is trying to sleep during the day.

I gave up all alcohol and coffee during that period, just so I could get some sleep before the night shift started and not feel knackered halfway through.

Then I looked at my end of month paypacket and just thought “Why am I putting myself through this when I could work in a pub?” Quit the same day. Horrific trying to live that way, vowed I’d never do it again no matter what.

benson

bosstrabs I am back tonight. Just slept for a couple of hours and will try again for another couple. I also have a training course on Monday after a night shift.

We do get our heads down at work as well overnight but a few weeks ago I did from Monday through to Friday evening sleeping not more than 120 mins at a time. No booze is a given during this period.

Loads of us went back to night shifts during covid. Lots of consultants doing nights again because all our junior doctors were staffing the massively expanded ICU. We covered all the usual emergency surgery that still needed doing (blocked bowels / appendectomies etc). We didn’t do it with cheese and wine in the garden, no matter what Fabricant said.

When I am ‘on call’ with junior doctor in the hospitalI still have to be available so that I am in attendance within 30 mins. For lots of us that means having to stay at the hospital as we live too far away.

Clearly we need to run a 24/7 NHS but I promise you the notion of us all down the golf club or the private hospital leaving the juniors to do all the work is long gone. It probably did exist but well before my time

Dubman

bosstrabs
I’ve decorated a few pubs and all had to be done after the pub had closed for the evening. I work until 7 am then go home. The worst bit was not being able sleep for the first 5 days until my body got used to it. No chance I’d do it again.

vinnyt77

benson no matter what Fabricant said.

He’s an appalling human being. In my top three ‘Worst Tory Cunts Ever’ list. Permanently.

Along_the_Wire

alistair Did it bring in additional revenue? Did it fuck.

That’s because, as you know, lots of bonuses, LTIPs, share options and other incentives were brought forward. I’m pretty sure the tax rate was 45% before that, but struggled to actually find any evidence to back that up.

Do you actually support the tax reductions that have just happened?

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