About
Why I built it
Hey, it’s Dev, you may know me as Doctor Devify online! I’m an internal medicine resident doctor in the NHS. As an FY1 during the strikes, I posted my payslip and it went viral, with more than 3 million views across social media, and the comments were full of colleagues who didn’t understand theirs. Payroll errors happen all the time: I’ve been overpaid and underpaid many times, and colleagues have been made to work illegally. So I started building resources to help, and Pay Clinic is where they all live now.
Doctor Devify
Pay Clinic is part of the Doctor Devify suite. I started Doctor Devify in 2023 to put NHS policy, workforce reform and system change into plain language for the people they land on. It has taken me from the ward round to national government campaigns and to 10 Downing Street, and it now includes the Doctor Devify Hub, resources for doctors at every stage. More of that story is on doctordevify.com.
The name and the mark
I wanted a name that was about money and still felt like the NHS. A clinic is where you bring something that isn’t right and have it looked at properly, and that is what this is for your pay: you bring a payslip, a rota or a tax question, and you leave knowing what you should have been paid and what to do about it.
The mark is a payslip as it used to come off the payroll printer: continuous paper with green tractor strips down each side, the feed holes punched through, and pale green bars across it to keep your eye on the line. The strip on the right is tearing off, the moment the slip is yours to check.
