‘It helps us deal with the financial anxiety’
A JUNIOR doctor who sold a week’s worth of annual leave last year plans to do so again as it helps him deal with “financial anxiety”.
Andrew Meyerson, an A&E medic, said: “Sometimes you desperately need a holiday. But we’re all incredibly stressed for money.
“I will pick up extra shifts in order to make ends meet. On my contract, with London rent and bills and supporting my partner taking an extra three bank shifts every month helps us to not have the financial anxiety we all have at the end of the month. And that’s just for bills, we’re not even saving anything.”
The 40-year-old said the government’s pay award for NHS staff is woefully insufficient adding: “It shows callous disregard for all the hard work doctors and nurses did in this country during the pandemic and since.”