A NQT in Physics in London has a Starting salary of £31,759 which is 17.6% higher than an entry level nurse, for that you would be contracted to 35 hour a week contract and work 48 weeks of the year, no working on weekends or holidays or unsociable hours and no charge to park in your place of work, your contracted hours work out at £18.90 per hour, you would get an increment of around a £1000 every year on that too.
If a nurse is contracted to the usual 40 hours a week for 47 weeks a year, they would receive an hourly rate of £14.36 per hour or 1/3 less than an NQT on hourly rate.
My wife is an executive head looking after an ever expanding number of schools so I'm very much on the side of educators and education I believe that teachers are overworked, underpaid and undervalued but they are much better off than those who go into nursing, both financially and in terms of life work balance, my wife is out at work 11 hours a day, she then has emails and budgets to sort out when she gets in, she is constantly on call in case she's required for safeguarding or other issues, one of her best friends is a Ward Sister and my Mrs says she can't believe how easy her life is in comparison.