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The Tesco worker is never going to get a large salary but all junior doctors are moving up the scale to bigger and bigger sums.

Very true LB I am in total agreement with you.

Not sure it's anyone over 21 :-0

When people decided to become a Junior Doctor they knew exactly what they were going to be paid, it shouldn't have come as a total surprise :-0

Everyone has had to dig deep, they are not alone :-|

To be fair to the Junior Doctors - anyone over 21 working in Tesco earns more than them!
Not only that, Tesco workers haven't got the responsibility of a junior doctor, neither do they have to pay back £ thousands for their training!!

Well anyone with any savings at all ( however small ) is about to become poorer as the bank rate has gone down to 5%.

If everyone entitled to pension credit now claims it the £1.5 bn saving from scrapping the WFA will drop to £0.5

We spend quite a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms and clinics watching the 'overworked' health service. What a joke most are wandering about with bits of paper trying to look important and trying to find nothing to do :-| :-| :-|

Rant over :-D

I have little time for the Juniors Doctors. Most workers think that their income has not kept up with the cost of living and I'm not sure why they think they are so special, expecting a 35% pay increase for goodness sake :-|

I agree with LaG you give into one and the rest follow...the domino effect :-0

All this will do is fuel inflation :-0

All the Junior Doctors can work towards being Consultants and then the skies the limit. Being a Junior Doctor is like being an Apprentice but like most Apprentices they don't reap the full potential income until they have put in their years :-0

They have all taken the Hippocratic Oath where they swear to not harm their patients. By striking and withdrawing their service they are not only harming people but it is totally unprofessional too :-|

Rant over :-D

A labour government will always cave in it is just the way of the beast. :-|

And so it goes on. It was obvious when they gave that massive pay rise to the junior doctors that the rest would demand more . Now it looks like the GPs are going to take action, so lots less appointments, slow in issuing prescriptions, not communicating with hospitals etc. That is going to have a huge knock on effect on hospitals especially A&E as everyone goes there instead. It doesn’t matter wether the junior doctors deserved the rise or not, just the very fact that they got it was going to make every other worker in the country believe that all they have to do is strike and the government will cave in

Well done Maggie lets hope they can run with it and get some results you never know.

Wooo!
I was about to go to bed, and looked at my emails.
My local MP (Lib Dem) has asked for more details, and for explicit permission to share my personal information and details with those whom they contact, such as government ministers.
My MP had questioned Ms Reeves about the WASPI women, and the cutting of the Winter Allowance when she made the statement.

I shall be replying 'yes' tomorrow :-D

Eye tests free for over 60's, every 2 years unless there are other factors which make them more frequent.
NHS dentists are few and far between, and not free specifically for retirees.

Bus service? What's that?

That's true - but this includes the dentist and optician.
Is that usually free for retirees.
I say 'retirees' as I couldn't retire, and apply until I was 66.

How many would simply stop taking their prescribed medication, if they had to pay for it.?
My medication would cost several pounds a week and I'm likely to have a life long need of them..

Don’t understand your free pass as prescriptions are free for the over 60’s ( so far) is it left over from before your birthday.

If it does happen we will have to go back to the prepaid prescription. Worked well when OH & daughter could get gluten free stuff on prescription - saved a bomb.

We do have volunteer drivers where give the driver a sum, some I’d deducted to run the service and the driver gets the rest. I’ve only had to use it once, after I had my knee done and my friend went on holiday.

Names, I have to admit, despite not being on Pension Credit, I've, strangely, got an NHS Free Prescription pass - and it's for 4 years!
It's worth seeing if you can get it.

https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/prescriptions/check-if-you-can-get-free-prescriptions/

As for bus services - one of my last jobs was collating responses to Winchester stopping 'charity' taxis. These 'taxis' were private cars, driven by lovely people, who only charged for petrol. They took people from rural areas, or those who couldn't use a bus, to doctor and hospital appointments.
All the Council did was pay for the extra MOT's the cars needed. I think the drivers paid for their own CRB tests.

The majority who replied to the questionnaire were in favour of keeping the taxis. The Council had done their 'tick box' procedure, and stopped paying for the extra MOT's, thus ensuring many of these taxis stopped.

Maggie- thanks for the link, we have both signed it.

What do you think of the idea that free prescriptions may go? I have wondered why that hasn’t followed the retirement age.
We have three each a month on average.
I’m also worried that our bus service will finally go without the funding that may have come the way of rural services.

Names, the email was ''acknowledged', but informed me I had to go through some hoops to send her a message.
So I did!
Also sent a similar message to my local (Lib Dem) MP.

Age Concern have a petition:

https://campaigns.ageuk.org.uk/page/154268/petition/1?locale=en-GB

My mum has lost her WFA and whilst not poor she's certainly not rich.
It's annoying that her and my father saved their money when they could no overseas holidays, only one small not expensive car (and not even that when first married), didn't go out much in the evenings couldn't afford to and too tired.
They've watched friends and relatives spend everything they've got and then some and now they seem to be given everything for free. Has anyone actually calculated whether someone on full benefits gets more than a senior who doesn't get pension credit etc?
My mum won't freeze or starve because we're make sure she doesn't, what about some others though. If you own your own house there's always costs involved they add up.
All Governments lie to get voted in but this was super fast. How about looking at the cost of all the illegal immigrants, people working and claiming unemployment, people not paying their tax it all adds up don't attack the pensioners who paid tax all their working lives.