Ep 325: 🇨🇾 Leaving the NHS for Cyprus...
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Dr Natasha Holmes discusses her decision to leave the NHS and move to Cyprus, exploring the factors influencing her transformation and future plans.
Follow @drnatashaholmes on insta and TikTok. Dr Natasha Holmes on Leaving the NHS and Moving to Cyprus: Push–Pull Factors, Risk, and What’s Next? On the Medics' Money podcast, Cyra chats with Dr Natasha Holmes, an FY10 pediatric locum/bank registrar, life coach, and co-creator of The Fully Well Doc Pod, who announces she is leaving the NHS and the UK after what she believes was her last NHS shift. Natasha explains her decision as a long “push–pull” transformation: reduced fulfillment from worsening NHS conditions and greater fulfillment from coaching, alongside pull factors including moving to Cyprus (where she grew up) for community, supporting aging parents, lower living costs, better savings prospects, and to explore starting a business and possibly medicine there. She discusses identity and mental health struggles during FY2, the need to prove she could do the job, and realizing colleagues often feel excited to work while she generally doesn’t. Natasha outlines risk mitigation via two years of savings, family housing/support, and a remote-working partner, and plans to maintain GMC registration through upcoming revalidation while exploring Cyprus requirements. They address…
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