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Lower pay rises for the NHS reduce costs for any potential buyers.
They won't be salaried in a post USA Trade deal world, they'll all be on zero contract pensionless terms...
public sector don’t have a monopoly on misery!
Thanks for pointing that out as literally no one knew that.
Clearly from some of the comments on this thread, many a true word spoken in sarcasm Drac!
For 'government', freely insert the word 'shareholders', 'owners', 'fat cats' etc. The only difference being that you don't get to vote any of them out every 4 or 5 years, and there isn't the same coordinated opposition.
and yet we still have huge shortages of nurses and teachers
They won’t be salaried in a post USA Trade deal world, they’ll all be on zero contract pensionless terms…
Seems unlikely, RN’s in the US get an average equivalent of £53k per year and before anyone mentions pensions, NHS pensions are contributory.
I haven’t met many Nurses (and I know a lot) that would ever want the NHS privatised, sold off, broken up or otherwise messed with, but most would get paid a lot more if they went to work in any other developed Country.
and yet we still have huge shortages of nurses and teachers
And many other lower profile public sector roles. I see/hear of/know of lots of public sector workers leaving for a similar private sector role/agency equivalent, don't see so many private sector people coming in to get those more generous pensions and terms and conditions. As I eye up a new CS role which sees a 7 day rota including weekends and evenings, loss of flextime, reduction in overtime rates, less generous leave allowance for new starters.....