Dr. John-Paul Byrne:

Regarding the specifics doctors may have talked about encountering when dealing with administration and HR, those included never getting responses to queries about pay, regularly having to pay emergency tax when they change hospitals, having to supply details to every hospital as part of their changeover every six months, providing employment details, not being paid correctly and overtime not being paid. They have to make constant efforts to sort out basic employment aspects that we would take for granted, but which these doctors regularly seem to have to struggle for. This situation leads to challenging relationships, with many of the respondents saying they just avoid HR or administration, if possible.