Wes Streeting berücksichtigt, Teil der Schulden der Ärzte abzuschreiben, um den Streik abzuwenden
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/17/wes-streeting-considers-writing-off-part-of-doctors-student-debts-to-avert-strike
Von acrimoniousone
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Doctors will have the highest amount to pay back over 30 years, for a few years plan 2 folk were at 12% interest, and interest builds the second you take the money not after the course, unlike US/Canada. Plan 2 is what RPI +4% so 8.3% at the moment, which is crazy.
No point writing off some of it, whole thing is a graduate tax on the poor/lower middle class who take the loan.
His big Pharma paymasters are really against paying people what they are worth, why doesn’t he offer them weightloss drugs that happen to be made by his employers like he did with the disabled?
thought the /s was implied but here we are, ill take the down votes
Let’s hope they do this for all those who work in the public sector.
A political and optics win would be to suspend student loan repayment whilst working in the NHS, that’ll effectively be a large pay rise without increasing pay and probably goes down better with the public.
That would certainly provide an effective increase in take home pay. Same should be done for nurses – making them pay student loans was a massive mistake.
Fixes to student loans. No interest for anyone, and teachers, doctors, nurses, or anyone else in crucial public sector work doesn’t have to repay if they work for a public body for a set period, 10-15 years depending on the profession.
This honestly feels like a fair compromise? If they truly cannot afford to raise salaries without causing more issues then lowering or scrapping their student debt seems fair.
The fuck are you charging UK based doctors 10+ years of student fees anyway.
Go back to funding it (and nursing) from central government funds, and providing a bursary while training.
It’d do an enormous amount to reduce the lack of doctors and nurses in the country right away.
What should have been asked for in the first place, 10% forgiveness every year you work in the NHS with 5 years minimum to qualify and a guarantee of a role during that period.
As long as that locks them into working for the NHS and the NHS only for a set period of time, OK.
Tbh i would be in favour of restructuring the teams of student debt for doctors and nursing staff, so that it becomes written off or reduced after a certain amount of NHS service, exempt from student loan repayments.
The whole student loan situation is a mess.
All debt should be written off and funding for universities overhauled
This is dumb. Why would I accept money tied to a specific purpose and set of conditions, when I can just take that amount in cash?
Offering this just proves the government can afford it.
Before we all get too excited, it’s worth bearing in mind this policy has a £7.5bn price tag.
We can all argue the rights and wrongs of student debt for ALL graduates, but this debt is actual debt and writing it off has a consequence for the Treasury.
UK medical degrees are charged at the same price as any other degree and are therefore already massively subsidised by the state.
The last two years of standard medical training are also done while in paid employment at a salary that’s starting at above the UK national average.
Opting to do loan forgiveness for just this one group – rather than nurses, teachers, social workers etc. all important public sector jobs facing a shortage – is a terrible policy when you consider its cost and how well paid doctors are over their career lifetime compared to many other professions.
This should happen for anyone who spends x amount of years in public sector roles. Maybe 50% after 3 years and 100% after 5 or something.
Or just pay them more if it’s “costing” the same thing?
The reason people are leaving in droves is because it pays better overseas, quality of life is better.
You can’t pay rent with forgiven student loans.
Why are we charging doctors for their own training again?
Oh yeah, everybody involved are scumbags.
Makes sense given that their use of RPI in their requested pay rise is only justified by the fact that student loan interest is set according to RPI.
Not sure I would want to give a large part of the public the satisfaction of demanding stuff for because I quote „I PAID FOR YOUR EDUCATION YOU OWE ME“
If we do that, they should at least sign some exclusivity where they have to work for the NHS for at least 5 years before they can take those skills elsewhere.
If we’re subsidising the training, we have to also extract value from it.
What an empty offer
Writing off part is completely pointless because it doesn’t even slightly change how much you pay today – at most it means you stop paying a bit earlier in eg 20 years time instead of 25… in the meantime the government continues helping yourself to 9% of your pay
Any doctor who works for the NHS should have the interest and payments paused, and 5% of the total written off each year they work for the NHS
(Basically: no student loans if you work for the NHS for 20 years, or pro rata if you piss off to Australia before that)
It will just serve to remind people how much of a fuss Labour made on tuition fees and how they now have no plans to reverse it.
Writing off all student debts would be a good idea regardless of the reason, it’s a stupid system that the conservatives made even worse by raising tuition fees.
I’m „lucky“ enough to only owe 40k which I’m probably never going to pay back, my sister who is still studying is already over 100k that she’s probably never going to pay back, charging interest on top of this and tracking that interest with inflation just seems like a punishment for going to university.
Living in Europe I’m surrounded by people who have had a much better education than me at next to no cost meanwhile I’m going to spend the rest of my life getting pestered by the student loans company.
I’d like that as well please wes,
regards,
student still with over 10k in debt to pay….
There’s alot that they could do to sweeten the deal
Removing the costs of exams would be popular, for example.