Burnout: Why doctors are quitting the NHS 

It's a shame it took me more than 8 years to study medicine and at the end , I ended up quitting the job to be a science teacher. What a weird world we live in and how to.survive.

That doctor didn’t feel valued or supported……..it’s no different for nurses and having been qualified 20 years I left the NHS because of bullying by management and I was absolutely burnt out mentally and physically. It’s an awful place to work, but it could be the most amazing organisation……however, the government don’t care…..they don’t care about the patients, they don’t care about the staff and they don’t care about the NHS as an establishment.

Hospital workers see so much suffering It’s too much. It’s extremely heavy work. It’s not just doctors. I was a porter. I had to leave . I felt like a tired old horse pushed to my physical limits Seeing human suffering is taxing to your soul

As Nurse I retired 2021. Burnout can lead to depression not to mention suppression of the immune system.

Not just Drs. Everyone is fed up. The abuse from some patients, bullying, stress from workload etc. Etc. Its too much.

My ex was a doctor at a prestigious hospital in London. He was incredibly overworked and it took a toll on us both. He has since moved to Australia and his work life balance is unbelievably different to what it was here. He is happier. Lots of doctors are looking to go abroad for their profession. I mean better pay, better structure and respect. NHS has suffered for years. I really do feel for all staff.

What the Tories have done to this country, is barely shy of criminal. Accountability is the only deterrent to the idiotic greed and arrogance that the elitist political class, has demonstrated.

I am a physician, not practicing in the UK. I am on the verge of tears every single day at this point. I am way beyond physical, emotional and mental exhaustion and no one seems to care. I get paid less than 1.500 euros a month which is barely enough to support my living expenses. After 11 years of study, I am at the point when I'm just happy when I get a free weekend. I am about to leave medicine for good.

It's just so sad to see the NHS staff having to cope like this it's just heartbreaking 💔😪

NHS hasn't moved with the times, it needs modernising

being a patient recently in hospital i can honestly say every nurse was worked off their feet so much i felt guilty taking up their time i felt real sorry for them

What is righteous has now become evil ,and what is evil has now become righteousness.

I'm German and have studied and finished biology and medicine. I'm also having second thoughts on my decisions because the health care system in Germany is also under increased pressure with people leaving the system and costs overall rising. I'm starting to consider moving to Switzerland to practice.

Everything is collapsing around us, make way for the new world.

I'm a GP and have observed colleagues resigning at an alarming rate in the last 6 months. Medicine is a wonderful career but the working condition and chronic stress make the job very challenging. When I signed up for medicine I knew the job required working long hours. However, the sacrifices doctors make due to the demand of work and rota are often at the expense of personal lives. i.e Missed Christmas, birthdays and weddings with loved ones. During my training, I was overworked but kept up with the increasing demand of work and pressure. A few years ago, after a hectic 13.5hr night shift I started to notice the impact of heightened chronic stress, sleepless nights and long hours on my health. Looking back, I was a few months away from a burnout.

The public would never understand the complication faced by that profession!

10 years and 4 months ago I got diagnosed with reactive arthritis as an 18 year old boy. My first consultation to discuss the possibility of steroids, surgery etc. has been booked for 2027 since. And only god knows how long those treatments will have to wait after that consultation. I have lost my life, my ability to exercise, my ability to walk longer than 15 minutes. It has affected my career prospects, my relationships, just about everything. If that's how bad things are in this country then I'm not suprised the doctors themselves are struggling.

Oh, I forgot. Our "short"rostered week was 75 hours. Our long week was seven days. Hours worked could be from 72 hours to an entire week. The "carrot" was the reference that the hsopital gave each resident. This "reference" travelled with each job application for the rest of that doctor's life!!!

As a doctor from Australia, tens of colleagues from the NHS have told me how poor the system was back in the UK. It is a governmental issue that needs to be fixed, Full qualified Doctors 7-8 years out of a medical degree lasting 6+ years are already paying off heavy student loans. I’ve been told they are living paycheck to paycheck whilst barely paying utility bills and groceries. Whether the doctors are striking or leaving to other countries, it needs to be addressed as many real people have had appointments cancelled with only life threatening services offered.

All done on purpose they want it gone

I am sorry nearly 3 years ago my beautiful mum passed away at the Royal free hospital , the nhs doctors were so uncaring and cold. It's also the way society is in the uk.

I'm a nurse, finished school in 2005, and I wanna leave but I don't know where. I'm tired.

This comes in a time when thousands on my home land doctors quit their jobs for a role in their dreamland: the UK. Just shocked!

My partner is in her second year as a junior doctor. Her rotas are managed by a doctor who volunteers for the job and isn't training to do it. She is supposed to get 6 weeks notice on her shifts and days off. She doesn't even know what her shifts are two weeks from now, let alone when she can book annual leave for the summer

The blame culture needs to change. Consultants shout at senior doctors who then shout at junior doctors who then shout at senior nurses who then shout at other nurses who then shout at HCA aka health care assistants! Phwe! Personal experience!

The US isn't any better for residents/junior doctors. Be aware of that before making the journey. Best of luck!

I have come from a low income country to the NHS. In my view, NHS is an inefficient system with lots of things that can be improved with less effort.Yes, there's a shortage of staff but its surplus based on what we have in my country of origin. Few things that can be done to reduce burn out are: 1. Stop these rotational training and provide a certain level of stability for the doctors in a particular place. 2. I don't understand the concept of night sets and I don't know how on earth doctors here are happy to work for 4 nights in a row. I think a single 24 hours shift with frequent rest in between is way better than even 2 night sets but again sticking to the policies. 3. Then comes on call. There is a shift doctor who is working, rather commuting to different hospitals and there's a on call who is sitting at home anxious and worried about when the phone rings. Just divide work in 2 different sites. 4. No decent hot foods throughout 24 hours. It doesn't take millions to make a good hot food or at least some food and water available in every workplace. 5. No vehicle provision to commute. Seriously, its a basic necessity. Just pick up and send doctors home during odd hours and arrange a car for them throughout shifts. It would make them feel a lot less burn out. There are many more. These basic things are even available in my home country which is one of the poorest in the world. I came here for better life and money. My earning is relatively better but life at work is far more miserable here. I can see 100 patients a day in my country and won't feel tired but here I feel tired after just 5-10 patients. Its because of all these non-sense beaurocracy and paperwork which can be made far more easy with the use of tech. On the top of that, GMC is far too strict. No doctor wants to harm patient but the way GMC thinks is every doctor is a culprit until they provide a proof. These small stuffs would make a huge difference.

I’m sorry to her. How sad we lost her 😢

Best decision i made in 2015 was leaving my nursing job and switching to Real Estate. I see many of my classmates getting burned out. Cant believe spent so many hours in this education and just so underappreciated in my country, and other countries too.

I am a nurse working in the NHS for 3 years. I have witnessed how the system works and it is very frustrating. Didn’t have a proper break when i did my nights because of emergency situations. Burnout and underpaid. I am planning to start my application in the US this year which they have a better compensation compared to UK.

Government priority is not NHS or economy. Its about Ukraine.

It got me when I couldn't cook brunch for some friends, just couldn't work it. Sounds sill, that was my head stopping working. Break the service, say it doesn't work, the answer privities it!! Oldest trick in the book. They

Its tough for all NHS workers not just doctors, biomedical scientists are the backbone of the NHS. They are forgotten and overlooked, the job is highly stressful and staff are significantly underpaid. We have no option to strike as staff can easily be replaced by an influx of oversee workers and privatisation of pathology services. Staff are not only resigning some have even attempted suicide due to a lack of support and horrendous work life balance. Nobody really cares as budget is the main priority, your just a number thats easily replaceable.

Not just pay and pensions: Workload, conditions, public expectations unrelated to NHS capacity, unsupportive (hostile) management, disproportionate regulation, reforms without coalface engagement, outlook (trajectory), loss of trust with leadership, blame culture, politicisation, sense of injustice, exhaustion, fear for patient safety... every year for the last decade, 'the worse NHS crisis ever' without let up.

Perhaps we need to question whether the NHS model can actually work in the long run. No system that is run as a free-at-entry service will ever be adequately funded.

In India ,doctors r beaten by bystanders is a common scenario….work is so hectic and underpaid also …

The working conditions for junior doctors in the UK even before the modernising medical careers program were always less than ideal. The career progression has been so politicised that the NHS is now dangerous place to work. It started getting worse and worse because management became a capitalist mafia over working minimal clinical staff and rotating them round and round or hiring them on short term contracts even before they have a chance to acclimatise and acquire the necessary skills to progress. Overseas graduate doctors have been exploited, discriminated , bullied for decades . What's changed is that in recent times local graduates have been made to suffer as well. And ofcourse they are not going to suffer in silence but vocally and publicly demand their rights. Medicine is one of the most rigorous and demanding professions and now its no longer rewarding because greedy overpaid politicians and managers are not putting patients first.

COMMENT: The long term planning of NHS is driven from the education professionals, as politics of the professors, of logistics, whom are socially engineering a change in society, one of conflict by design, at the point of presentation in protestation and rebuttal thereof, reflective of such capacity constraints evident within the system, as a myopic focus upon "risk" as a "transfer of risk", as a function of reductionism and a skew to the utilitarianism of a commodity driven services, reflective by proxy of similar extreme presented from the provision of elderly care within councils, as a 2nd class service to the of the NHS, as per the covid pandemic issues; such is a generational systemic changes, driven through the demographics of population change, and inadequate systemic design of capacity, as the assertion of the acceptance of a lesser state of being, whilst there is a politically camouflaged rampant inflation, from the abstracted house prices, affordability issues and more importantly equally the non functioning pensions sytem, as a skew to the older generations .... go figure.

Many in NHS are quitting and moving over to the Private Sector and funny enough in some cases the PS is in the same building as NHS but with better conditions, how that works i don't know. This is a plan for the "golden goose" and where blame falls on the staff. "Well it wasn't our fault we had to sell the NHS, it's a staffing issue". Went from hero to zero like that *clicks fingers*

35%? Our company has just issued us 4% Get real!

UK doctors need to look at the numbers in US - if anything it’s worse here, no maternity leave or other generally expected benefits and mid level encroachment making job security even less likely. Thousands of US grads cannot get residency training

I thought Canada and Australia had model socialized medicine🤒

Yeah it’s rough out there on all sides . Some sides way sicker tganothers

We had better health care in the 70`s !

All industries are playing the same game get rid of the workers on the higher wages and replace with cheaper new staff its staff rotation.

See that's the plus a socialized medicine good doctors I'm gonna do it they spent all those years of school for what

The students have no idea what awaits them. Like a star eyed soldier going off to a war.

Sitting in my garden after a night of 🤮 because I didn't have time to chew my food rpoperly during oncall day. A day off sick for which I will be penalised with an extension of my training. Living on budget, each month woreying about paying bills. That's the reality of working in NHS. 😢

They've done nowt for 3 year

@5:12 Weird hearing this as the idea to time my log in in today flashed through my mind. I had a commodore 64 that loaded up faster!

Does Sky 'News' want to comment on Yahoo news headlines ''Leave us alone': Nicola Bulley's family criticise Sky and ITV's intrusive coverage'? Because blaming it on the police is not the right way to shift attention!

This is such nonsense. Any changes will be made to the pay scale for all. He could only divide and conquer with doctors. Nursing unions can talk but they probably won't accept anything that doesn't benefit the whole. Anyone who thinks they can don't realise how closely all the professions work and how interwoven everyone's jobs are

as a resident, I was expeectged to see 20 patients an hour, working 18 hour days, for $3.00 per hour for the first 40 hours. Then the rest was for "free".

its a sign of bad things to come like the robots taking over. keep stocking up and prepare to start again.

When is Sky going to apologise to the Bulley family for their atrocious behaviour?

Are they tired of murdering the elderly? RIP Mum xx Stay away from these death camps 😢

No one should be a doctor teacher nurse so where are we heading

The free healthcare model is coming to the end of its life cycle. The sooner we accept that and introduce a more efficient hybrid system (akin to Germany or Australia's), the sooner we can start improving conditions and pay for healthcare professionals, as well as waiting times for patients. The UK needs to lose its religious and irrational devotion to the NHS. Nothing ever seems to get done about the NHS crisis because whenever someone suggests actual change, all we get is "the Tories are privatizing our NHS!!!". Even if the nurses and doctors do get pay rises, it's like putting a plaster on a broken leg.

Go to Norway or Switzerland, been to a+e equivalent in both and UK is 30years behind. 🤞More people start realising the people in charge don't care, Britain on strike.

This is such a shame.. it would seem we are falling apart as a country,

Can we privatise politics? MPs etc? This is a legit question because they have failed in every way, shape and form.

The government wants to get its priorities right in its own country, b4 noseing and worrying bout elsewhere.

Without the experienced staff or older mentors to back up the NHS as well... or from at least a few generation's staff... they would also hit at issues as well. And this is also tie in with those doctors, who were also experienced... and they also entered the pharma sectors as well... And then this adds to the pressures too. So many skilled and experienced individuals, who previously did a lot... and they entered into the extended scope of medicine...

Very sad

It is the same in Asia. There are people who want to serve, but at the same time, at the end of the day, they are just humans. They have basic needs. They have needs.

Fantastic stuff filling a gap for a while...Now can F off again!

Privatisation is on the way....

Doctors have literally the most important job in the world…no other industry can exist without healthy people to operate it….unwillung to pay healthcare workers but willing to pay politicians and bankers

Have to avoid cases like nurse who set fire to himself & doctor gawa barba & neurosurgeon who topped in himself at st georges this is why nhs needs to look after staff correctly

8:53 that is one horrible way to go about it!

We need priority NHS for those non Brexit voters and non conservative voters

I've got burnout waiting on the phone to get appointments

Breaking the NHS to turn it private.

Come to Australia we need more highly qualified doctors the pay and life style are good ,old jimmy Aust

Ok I’m not waiting up all night for his. Catch the terun

This documentary just addresses doctors what about nurses, in my team are work I’ve seen 14 people leave over the past 2 years only 3 replaced

I think, that across all work places and jobs, and lifestyles in general, all us are finding out, that what once fitted, and was good - no longer fits and is no longer good. In and of itself, that is fine - but - the 'train', or 'idea', of what's next, still cannot be seen. It is as if summer is over, winter is here: what happend to Autumn? There has been a mass consciousness shift in humanity, globally, with very few of us having found our own new, still yet to come: life affirming snug cubbyhole.

This is true.

Recruit more Filipino nurses but be sure also to compensate their extra work and give their bonuses. Sure it will give more nurses to come to the United States if your American healthcare system is good.😊

She is so smart wow

The NHS needs to be abolished.

We’re STILL being invaded 😅🤷🏽‍♂️

Whilst Doctors and everyone else is struggling to pay for their bills Tories MPs have increased their wages.

Well we can import more doctors from India

That’s probably cuz they dont have loans . American docs are drowning in loans- cant leave

they add burnt in so are now in search of more wood to burn

Just as well we have so many fine doctors arriving in Dover every day.

hedge fund set fire to measuring equipment ??

increase there pay rates tories

the nhs has a system problem

And here I am an HCA in Kenya jobless..for years with a million other people 😭😥

Look like some indian hospitals 😂😂😂, no difference but some indian pvt hospitals are still better 😂😂😂😂

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Make sunak watch this ......if only. 😡😡

One of the problem is the passive aggressive culture, behind the "polite excuse" that never address the obvious facts to not be rude. Now that aggressive way of being is not passive anymore, nurses are the one who are recieving the worst, Drs are complaining now because that is touching to them, but they never ever care about anything before the situation didn't touch to them.

If a Doctor is unhappy with the UK NHS, then go to work at a private Clinic where the money is better and the Patients have full health insurance cover . My GP earns over £100,000 per year and is very happy with his job.

Oh come off it as if America wants to take a dr who works for NHS 😂

Some very silly, uninformed comments here.

Overworked and underpaid! Please support the Junior Doctors to continue saving lives. #PayRestoration #EnoughIsEnough #supportjuniordoctors #JuniorDoctorsStrike

Because they are overworked and underpaid... very simple