2026-06-12 from ctvnews.ca

Senior doctors in the United Kingdom are feeling “increasingly unvalued” and burned out, with some even “quiet quitting” and looking to move to Canada or Australia as a result, according to an article in a medical journal.

Referred to as “consultants,” the senior doctors work in the National Health Service (NHS), the publicly funded health-care system in the U.K. They have full medical training in a specialized area of medicine.

Years of “attacks” on consultants’ pay and a government that just “wasn’t listening” have forced the senior doctors to mull strike action, said Shanu Datta, a consultant psychiatrist from Lancashire, a county in northwestern England, in an article published in The British Medical Journal (BMJ) on June 2.

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