Comments on: our 2 favourites

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:10:28 +0000

I’m being primarily paid by hinchingbrookes, joint appt their and addenbrookes in urogynae. Ao hinch not so in debt, and cheif exec crony of tony blair i believe. Being resident in obstetrics not fun though! As far as I can see, we are not being paid for the supporting professional activites at the moment either, just direcr clinical care. With the revalidation and appraisal processes though, even DoH says should have 2.5 paid sessions.
Never mind, my addenbrookes pair has emailed, there are 7 research projects ready to start on my return, so should get through revalidation OK!
40k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! v nice.

By: The other Chris

The other Chris — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:16:08 +0000

Well I think the Oxford Radcliffe’s deficit is bigger that Addenbrooke’s – ?40m this year!! Yet they still hit the financial management target? The Trust also has a 12 PA max rule, with initial job planning showing some working 16+. The problem we have is that there is insufficient funding for academic PAs, so given a choice of a paid PA for clinical work rather than an unpaid PA for academic you can guess what happens. Some of our clinical academics are I believe to receive back pay of aorund ?40-50k.

Of course that area is the chosen home for the likes of Geoffrey Archer and John Major, which sums it up for me

By: HelenJ

HelenJ — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:50:56 +0000

Hollow laugh re consultant contract!! I think it depends where you work, how broke your hospital is etc. I am newly appointed, so no backpay. Also, the consultants I am with were working 16 PA’s when it was added up, due to lack of registrars. This being unsustainable, they have increased the consultant numbers and got 3 registrars, so that we are only resident at night approx half the time. We are working – to my calculation – still about 14 PA, but can only be paid for a maximum of 12.The only cut to 10 PA’s will be a salary cut, rather than an actual job cut, as still have to keep to waiting list targets etc, and these are only being met with a bit of managerial fiddling anyway. I originally jumped up and down with glee re the new consultant contract as I thought it would be an answer to prayers on working practice, but certainly among the people I know, it seems to be a con on that front, and a lot of them are in mediation procedures with the management. Pay is great though – over double what I have been earning as part time registrar.
As for location, tied to that 10 mile rule. However, bus links around for when children older into cambridge.

By: The other Chris

The other Chris — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:34:50 +0000

Helen, I thought you were a consultant…..isn’t the new consultant contract all about working less (stick to those 10 PAs) whilst earning more……I wish I worked in a job where you get a great payrise for working less hours My favourite bit of all is the backpay some of our consultants are waiting for from the new pay deal which is going to net them tens of thousands!!!

I am envious of those house too, but not the location. I think that area to the west of Cambridge is one of the dullest places on earth I spent a year or two spending a lot of time in Hemmingford Abbot.

By: Chris F

Chris F — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:37:30 +0000

No, no viewings yet, but it only went ‘live’ yesterday really. We want to get the first one out of the way – maybe the weekend? I think we have decided that the new house is just strecthing ourselves too far, and the impression I got from the agents is that the owners would be ‘open to offers’ as they say (they’ve been on the market for sometime, have had sales fall through etc.) Then again, there are alternatives – – maybe i’ll post some.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:53:14 +0000

Ooooh! Both of those look stunning for different reasons … I like the olde worlde look of the second but my experiences of older houses have been, erm, expensive, so I’d be tempted by the new one, myself. Plenty of parking, too – but that’s one of our priorities, probably not anyone else’s!

Have you had anyone looking round your house yet?

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:01:43 +0000

thats ok, i just feel embarassed sometimes by earnings so perhaps on the lookout for offense caused by me!

By: Jules

Jules — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:53:48 +0000

Sorry Helen, no of course your post has not offended or annoyed, I am just very envious
I know the tone to my comment may have sounded critical, but hand on heart it was not meant to in any way.

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:37:24 +0000

it is lovely to have the choice, and putting them up, i’m aware of how lucky i am to have a job that pays well. We have got a lot of equity in this house though due to huge leeds price rises [over triple] which helps.
so please beleive me that my griping is more with the hours i work [without obvious likelihood of reduction] rather thasn the salary. i would prefer to work less, earn less and therefore buy a house to suit less, but if that is prob not poss, should i go for broke and give into temptation, so at least have house of dreams if not work life balance.
hope my wingeing has not annoyed or offended.

By: Jules

Jules — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:26:31 +0000

Ooooh, what it must be like to have a choice to make like that!
Due to dh’s earnings we have no hope of even gaining more than a ?60,000 mortgage, so it is rented property for us for many years to come…
I love both from looks alone, although I do like the second ‘older’ property purely from a character point of view.