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Leaving aside the political aims of the governing party, the NHS employs a lot of people, it's the biggest employer in Europe and one of the biggest in the worl
by walthamstow 3y ago
Leaving aside the political aims of the governing party, the NHS employs a lot of people, it's the biggest employer in Europe and one of the biggest in the world, so even a 1% raise costs a large sum of money.
Large nominal sums of money are really easy to turn into a negative headline, rather than the cost of using staffing agencies which requires a bit of analysis.
See Brexit for an example. "We're spending £350m per week on this, isn't that mad?!" versus "various analyses and projections show that raising trade barriers and reducing staff mobility will likely have a negative effect on domestic businesses"
- mrguyorama 3y ago>"We're spending £350m per week on this, isn't that mad?!" Aren't you sorta forgetting the more salient point of this headline? That it was an outright fabrication with no justification or basis in reality?
- walthamstow 3y agoI know, but it doesn't necessarily matter in this context, my point is that big simple numbers make good headlines, and complicated analyses do not.