A senior nurse who quit the health service after suffering crippling burnout now earns the same salary in an entry-level tech job.
Sean Cherry, 31, spent nine years in Royal London Hospital rising to the role of a Band 7 nurse at the tech in Whitechapel – but pressures on the health service led to him packing it in after the pandemic. Sean earned take-home pay of £2,500 in his high-ranking health service role – but now earns the same in a junior consultancy position.
NHS wages in England scale from Band 1 to Band 9. The Mirror reports that Sean ultimately quit in September last year after being signed off with stress for 10 weeks.
