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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Andy Gregory

UK doctors lured to Australia with ads promising £130,000 salary and days off to swim and surf

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NHS doctors are being lured to Australia by adverts promising them a six-figure salary and 20 days off each month to “travel, swim and surf in the sun”.

The advert has been placed in the BMJ, the prominent journal published by the British Medical Association union, during a week in which the NHS has been rocked by further nurses’ strikes.

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