{"id":121650,"date":"2025-09-07T22:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121650\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:32:06","slug":"disabled-doctors-consider-leaving-nhs-over-shift-inflexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121650\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabled doctors consider leaving NHS over shift inflexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Gatenby added: &#8220;If I were a teacher, I wouldn&#8217;t need to go through a lengthy process to prove I&#8217;m disabled every time I changed classrooms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But as a doctor with an invisible disability, I must prove to a disability panel that I&#8217;m still disabled every single year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is genuinely considering leaving medicine, but said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to, but what choice do I have? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And yet, I think, if I walk away, who will be left to advocate for other doctors like me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Gatenby described how senior colleagues said &#8220;you&#8217;re not a real doctor&#8221; because she cannot do on-call shifts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yet when I ask to be included in weekend rotas, I&#8217;m told it&#8217;s too much hassle unless I can manage 12-hour shifts straight,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BMA is trying to address the issues raised in the survey, as nearly three quarters had not received all of the reasonable adjustments they required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Gatenby added: &#8220;If I were a teacher, I wouldn&#8217;t need to go through a lengthy process to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-121650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}