Doctor recalls harrowing moment she decided to leave NHS and pursue job in Australia | LBC 

If the voters don’t care about her , why should she care about them? Shes had enough of voters just clapping.

No offence to Australia, but the fact that nurses want to leave this country to work elsewhere because of the state we're in is a terrible indictment on the Tories and what they've done.

Tories will blame the Doctors and Nurses for leaving for a better life.

I’m a (now) retired ex-NHS Consultant Surgeon. For years and years, things got ever worse and more intolerable, such that I resolved to retire from medicine and the NHS completely, as early as possible. I left on my 55th birthday. I was completely burnt out, my children barely saw me when they were growing up, my own physical and mental health suffered, my marriage in tatters and then subsequently over; I took a huge financial hit on not just my immediate income but also my subsequent pension forever more. But, I just could not continue. My two-year younger, close colleague in my department did the same….two years later. And, there were multiple other colleagues also merely clinging on to get to a point where they could reasonably “go early” as well. This is the reality of what is going on. This is not what we wanted to be Doctors for. It is very sad….if nothing else.

I have had better treatment in my husband's country Morocco and their hospitals are so well run in comparison, ours are like war zone, you're walking around patients in corridors to get to appointments, not ok. The Conservatives have done this deliberately to create desperate situation so we go more private.

Left the UK 10 years after being fed up with the education system. Got recruited to work for a private school in Japan. In that time was able to get my own place and earn 30% more than what I did back in the UK. I’m loving life here, I don’t have to worry about living month to month.

Same here, a Spanish Operating Dpt Assistant, over 45 yr experience, working well after my retirement because I loved my work and felt all that alll that experience shouldn't go to waste. Now, with all the dirt thrown at immigrants and immigration in general, strikes and toxicity, I'm afraid I've given up work, returned to Spain to enjoy free time, late mornings and all that goes with retirement in the knowledge I now live in a civilized country where the healthy pay so the sick are looked after, the old to educate the young, the rich to feed the poor, etc. Shame about patients. Sorry.

The care, compassion and humanity that my Mom received in the last stages of her life was truly humbling. To think that the people who provided that care are being treated in the way that you first caller mentioned makes me ashamed of my nationality and my Government.

Australia would heartily welcome this doctor, and any other doctor, nurse, or paraprofessional.

Im a Diabetes specialist Podiatrist who was in the NHS and now live and work in Australia. Best decision I ever made. It broke my heart to bale on the NHS, but i just couldnt take it anymore.

I left my NHS consultant job just over a year ago now. One of the best life decisions I've ever made. I hope she actually goes through with it.

Britain is now so ridiculous, it is now an episode of Fawlty Towers, or even Monty Python, if you are old enough. Cradle to grave has now gone out the window.

I congratulate everyone who wants to have a better life away from the laughingstock that is Britain these days.

Just commented elsewhere that I am constantly being contacted by recruiters in Aus - sister is already out there and if i can persuade mum to go ( she'd be by herself here if we left), we're gone. If we stay I will need to consider doing something else - the NHS is underfunded and understaffed and, honestly, a stressful and toxic place to work in post-brexit, tory britiain.

This is actually spreading to every aspect of British life because of the Tories; we are losing valuable experience. The NHS, Schools, The Police, and even the military are all staffed by junior and inexperienced people. The country is falling apart.

How sad that it has come to this. This is putting us all in danger, the Tories are shameless 😢.

The story about the man with end stage cancer was horrifying. My son is a senior nurse and some of his work involves something horrible like this. One of his friends has already left the uk for Australia and this sort of thing is happening all the time.

But no Australian would ever say to her "GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM"! P.S. Apologies for shouting!

I live in rural Tasmania. My newest friends are Selina and Luke, two English nurses who have moved here to work. Six months after we met, they are more determined than every to stay. Australia is not politically ideal but the class system is less pronounced here, and it is at the heart of all Britain's problems. As the country's economy declines, the refusal of the gentry to give up their trust funds and privileges to crushing working people to dust. There is a certain irony that our most disgusting export- Rupert Murdoch- is indirectly propping up our health system.

Post Brexit Australia deal: "We get your hormone ladened beef, you get our professionally trained medical staff".

The second caller sounded in denial or possibly just somewhat deluded by optimism and wishful thinking!

Best of luck. I don't blame you, Britain is now so toxic, which, when you think about, is defeating the point, ironically. 💖👍🌞🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐑

Glory to Australia, NZ, Canada, USA, Ireland and the UAE. They are taking nurses like myself and also brilliant, highly educated doctors funded courtesy of the tory-voting, entitled british taxpayer and treating them how they should be so they contribute to their countries. Those who vote tory deserve what is coming. An absolute catastrophe of a 'health' service that will provide third world care as the elites access high quality doctors abroad or in private london clinics. I am 10x happier living here in NZ. Paid double/triple, patients actually grateful rather than the daily fail reading variety in the UK. Pay more or lose us all.

My daughter had a breakdown recently when she came to stay here, a business lady. She was at her wits end how Britain is so cack! She is having treatment in an health unit here in Wales at the mo...

As a three time head and neck Cancer survivor. Who has been left with a severe amount of chronic illness and disability, both mentally and physically. I can honestly say that the NHS is completely dead. I have spent the last 7 years… following the escape from two aggressive brain tumours in 2016. Battle not with cancer, but the brutally inadequate state of the NHS. Though I see this all this from both my perspective, the staff and other survivors facing the same situation. It’s ALL just joke… only no one is laughing! LBC… due to my jaw being permanently locked shut via radiation damage. I can not speak on the phone to voice this in public. But… if my story is required to make the desperate state of NHS service in this nation known. I’m more than happy to provide.

5:58 “I wish there’s more of you, Liv”. There are, they’re in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, …

smart Australia. They found a way to attract health professionals. Meanwhile, in the UK they are overthinking about increasing nurses wages. There is a huge gap between the 2 countries

Lived and worked in Australia for 4 years, was the best time of my life and if I had a transferable skill I wouldn’t think twice about emigrating. It makes the uk look like a third world couldn’t!

I'm at ST3 level & I'm definitely be gone by this time next year. It's harrowing, exhausting & devastating trying to help people when you are slowly dying inside from the lack of structural support & resources

The government doesn't know the meaning of the words "Home Grown."

I happened to hear that interview live this morning. Such a harrowing tale! What is almost as sad is that the great British NHS is pervasively being destroyed by this Tory Government. I hope i am still alive in 10yrs time, but i dont believe there will be an NHS around to care for me if i fall ill. That'll be 40yrs of taxes all for virtually nothing.

“A vote to leave is a vote for a better, faster NHS.”

This is what happens when you vote Tory. These people don't live in the real world.

No one who left Britain in the last 10 years regrets it now. Could never have dreamed Britain would get this bad.

I’m a Community Nurse considering emigrating to Canada or Australia. If I don’t I’ll leave Nursing altogether as I have had enough. I love my job but I physically cannot give anymore, there are just too many patients and not enough clinicians to see them. I feel like I’m rushing through patient visits, task nursing they call it, something I loathe, and in order to give each one appropriate and patient centred attention, I go without breaks, finishing late every day. I’ve had no time off since December 2022 and am exhausted in every way possible. We received a bonus from the Gov in the Pay Deal, but what they didn’t tell the public is most of it was taken back by the same Gov in tax and NI contributions, for their salaries and benefits. 😢

Send more. Doctors and nurses are welcome. We need more, and the conditions are better here. ... and you get to live in Australia.

Yes because Tory England is obssesd with small boats and voters believe the lie

LIFE IS SHORT. I'm a Brit living in Austria. Doctors, Nurses GO, STOP WAISTING YOUR LIFE. A Nurse in Austria gets €55,000 a year "WITH OTHER BENIFITS".... A Nurse in the UK? £25,000.....

To quote the great Zarah Sultana 'The trouble with clapping is it doesn't pay the f*cking bills'

The NHS was fit for 1948. Pay and conditions for junior doctors in the UK is dreadful. Patents have little choice and poor service.

My cousin is a nurse, she moved to Australia & never looked back. I know its daunting but go. You can always visit. Wish this lady the best. 😊

If you are a doctor you can practice anywhere YOU like... There will always be govts and countries that will welcome you with open arms... Apparently, almost anywhere but the UK...

We moved 19 years ago to Australia for the exact same reasons. We could see the decline all the way back then. I retired at 58, no mortgage and own everything I have.

And today we learn a record 170, 000 others left last year ( another unwanted record) and all the government can do is claim it's nurses payrises as opposed to hugh business bonuses that will hike inflation.

In the world of the Tories just shove an extra student or two in next year and problem solved. Retention matters because unless you retain staff the problem is just going to grow.

I left the uk for New Zealand. So grateful I got in here. We may try Australia when my son finishes school. I wouldn't go back to the uk until it changes for the better.

Nurses are also leaving for austalia in droves. Why should we work for £1850 per month base rate.

I know a lot of nurses that moved to Australia too, and they have better working conditions and pay.

Not just Australia, doctors will be welcomed in New Zealand. My daughter when she finishes medical school in Scotland will likely choose to move overseas. She is very aware of what awaits her!

At least the doctor is moving onto another UHC system, unlike the for profit Deathcare system in America.

Cameron and his Tories pursued the stupidest most pointless path of extreme austerity leading to service cutting which ended up here.

Disgraceful how little doctors and nurses are paid. Their work is invaluable.

remember how developing nations went through brain drain? Where young graduates went to other countries like the UK because they got better training,education, personal development, and pay? I think the UK is now a developing nation because i see brain drain happening here.

It amazes me that people live in these conditions and still vote Tory.

Brexit voters, The Tories, so many people seemingly want us to be a backwater, its really weird.

But but...we clapped!

"We HAVE to have home grown people in these jobs". There physically are not ENOUGH people to do these jobs.

Inflation from 2010 to 2022 is 58%. NHS staff pay increases from 2010 to 2022 is 26%. Do the math!!

I dont blame the doctor who went to work in Australia on ur show.Ive seen/worked with Nurses colleagues and Doctors who got fade up with the current government and now decided to migrate to Australia/USA i meant lots of them. Torry government’s heavily relies on overseas and after 3yrs of them getting the knowledge and skill practices and now they all left nhs and went to work abroad. Homegrown staff and more funding to the nhs will stop exploitation! Enough is enough people in Great Britain have suffered and have lost healthcare morals!..

That account of the patient... is this what human dignity has been reduced to by the government in a first world country?!

Nurses in Western Australia are being offered starting salaries of$ 85K (approx 55/60 k pounds pa) and specialist nurses up to $120k through agencies. Doctors with modest experience starting at $130k while experienced doctors, (5 years) over $200k.

I left the NHS after several years working there. Was a Unit Medical Technician. Staff abused, patients left in pain, lack of staff due to conditions and pay. The NHS needs help before it's too late. Hope the government realises before it is too late. 😢😢😢

Australia is heading south as Doctors are turning to bulk billing and are refusing to take any more patients due to the increasing workload and lack of financial support which current patients are more than likely being made to feel we're the problem for there demise in work and life balance being a huge burden. . Five years ago I could go to a clinic nearer to where I live and get an appointment without needing to spend 2 hrs by public transport and then have to wait up to an hour and half or more even with an online booked appointment to see your own GP or pay at a starting rate of $85 dollars for a short consult for just a prescription repeat for the 24/7 pain I have to endure. It's like you feel like saying to the doctor I don't appreciate being made to feel like a worthless POS cos your lifestyle has suffered since post covid.

Yes, lots are leaving NHS, it's not just doctors, it's nurses too. They are going to Canada, Oz, NZ, USA, UAE...I talk to them quite regularly and their reasons are interesting - it's not just better pay and conditions, and better quality of life - it's the push factors too - "Britain is depressing" is something I hear quite a lot, as we heard in this video too...

I Have Indian friends who came from INDIA to work here in the UK now they are moving one by one to Australia because of Better Pay. They only come here because its easy for them to apply to Australia from the UK.

😢 the poor man of Europe

I don't even work in the NHS and I'm trying to leave too. The UK is in decline. And will get a lot worse before any semblance of 'better' happens in the future. All those people who voted for the Tories and Brexit - YOU will have to face the reality of your decisions. This is what YOU voted for. YOU broke it. So YOU feel the heat. But due to misplaced pride, they'll prob keep lying to themselves about how bad things are while this lady and others will just move to other places with less hassle that still work like a normal 1st world countries. So sad. And totally avoidable. My advice to anyone under the age of 35 - leave while you can and start your lives in other countries. There's nothing here for you...

I left the UK years ago.. the quality of life in other countries is so much better.. larger house.. better pay, money can buy you more.. why stay in the UK?

The UK did the same recruitment for nurses in Spain etc

The lack of funding and poor management in the NHS is what's lead to it's slow demise.

I can recommend Canada, myself. I came back but it is a lovely country and only a 7hr flight, 10 if via Amsterdam (for the north easterners). You need to be able to drive unless you stick to the expensive cities.

What a well versed caller that deserves success and happiness that unfortunately our government is just not focused on being a factor for medical staff in the nhs. Just bleed them dry in a dodgy transfusion of peoples lives

It's not just NHS workers. It's also Business owners. I have a company in the UK and in the US. One offers no income tax or corporations tax.

Remember how a decadfe ago people were warning that the tories would just defund until it doesnt work, then they would get the private sector in under the guise that the NHS cant cope. They were shouted at for supposed fearmongering. It was a clear warning.

Matt couldn't get rid of the first caller fast enough for the astroturfer

Welcome to Australia -- sent from Melbourne

This is also happening with the police as well, their offering more money, more training courses, better work life balance hours, how can we compete, if it wasn't for family commitments I'd be gone

Back in my pharmaceutical days, there was a process who you could use part of your budget in a target account to fund an extra nurse and/ doctor or at least fund some extra hours to improve the service. Invariably it never worked as the NHS would accept the new position but then would not fill any vacancies if one of the original team left. So nobody benefited.

Thought we were getting £350 million a week to improve the NHS that's got to be several billions by now...

560000 foreign students arrive in uk annually 1500000 visitors annually Over a million work permit granted annually stop inviting then you'll see a drop significantly

I’ve been trying to warn about the declining NHS before the pandemic even hit. No one wanted to hear it.

Now read the Sun, Mail, Express ect. and think how wonderful they paint the tory party.

I'm sad to say that my GP sister relocated to Dubai just after easter.

GO TO CANADA !!!

Higher pay, daily essentials are cheaper, safer to live, better place to raise children, happier, better climate, on literally every metric. The UK is toast

Where are the public holding the corrupt govt to account for the death of the NHS

I would love to relocate to Australia but I am to old (nearly 48) & even though I have a BA (Hons.) degree & Masters degree they are in a non-critical subject (as in there are no shortages) so unless I have $1million AUS in the bank I am stuck here in the UK.

Go back in history and look at how doctors nurses police officers etc were treated.. and you will understand what is going on.. and what government party really needs unstitching..

Pay and conditions are fantastic and great weather 😀

Nova Scotia is in Canada.

6:00 the key here is the Tory press will say it's a waste of time having a senior doctor sign off on stuff. It's "bureaucracy" and a waste of money and time. So they'll make the health service faster but less safe! But many people won't notice because they'll do it quietly. I'm sure they'll be up for something like that too.

Its not much different in Australia Today again the news is full of Ambulance ramping as no one can be seem at treage.

I’m in Australia it is not all rosy here for nurses

never mind. Rishi will have plumbers and brickies doing their job soon enough

Those that don’t support the nurses and doctors strikes need to be careful what they wish for. Would you want your mum, dad, son, daughter, brother, sister, wife, grandparents, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends receiving the best care or a compromised care just so the government can say they’ve cut costs? Those health professionals intervening to save and improve lives are providing a service you really can’t under value. At some point we will all need the NHS and I for one want the expertise and skills recognised and valued for the outcomes they produce.

What's the reason for the huge problem with A&E? Not enough staff? Too many patients?

The US healthcare system is awful but I still got better care on my reservation than I did when I lived in the UK right after Brexit. When the Indian Health Services is better than the NHS, you know things have gotten bad.

Everybody’s life is at risk. My life is at risk! I am furious 😡

Most dr's who work for the NHS are not even from Britain lol Most of the NHS is staffed by commonwealth employees

Why does australia have so many vacancies that they need to recruit from uk?