{"id":1006,"date":"2022-07-18T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T08:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/pay-campaign-in-metro-news\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T09:57:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T08:57:43","slug":"pay-campaign-in-metro-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/pay-campaign-in-metro-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Neil Barnard gives an honest account on why he is leaving the NHS in Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 12 years of brutal service, I am leaving my <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/nhs\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/nhs\/\">NHS <\/a>post as an emergency department consultant to work abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My decision to leave is driven by financial and personal reasons. More than anything, I\u2019m tired and have little more left to give to the NHS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am sure the comments section will be littered with people telling me that, as a consultant, I am well paid and should be grateful for the job. No doubt there will be people who berate me for treating a noble calling as a J-O-B and not being more altruistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I suspect any of my colleagues who read this will be cheering me on and wishing they could join me on the flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: revert;\">. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: revert;\">Read the full piece <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/07\/15\/as-an-nhs-doctor-im-undervalued-and-overworked-so-im-moving-abroad-16962133\/\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The NHS needs to realise that its staff is its greatest asset\n\n<footer><cite>Neil Barnard<\/cite>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=The+NHS+needs+to+realise+that+its+staff+is+its+greatest+asset+%E2%80%94+Neil+Barnard&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dauk.org%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin-ajax.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\nTweet\n<\/a><\/footer><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 12 years of brutal service, I am leaving my NHS post as an emergency department consultant to work abroad. My decision to leave is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,58],"tags":[490],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-the-nhs","tag-doctors-pay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}