On Thursday, 27 July 2017 17:04:32 UTC+1, Mark wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:45:27 +0100, Andrew
wrote:

On 23/07/2017 23:46, Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp wrote:
while the NHS staff get paid peanuts.

I can *really* assure you that NHS staff do not get paid
'peanuts'. 13 years of NuLab saw the NHS budget leap from
£38 Billion to £115 Billion and most of that increase was
down to increased staff costs. The headcount went from 960,000
in 1997 to 1,350,000 by 2007.

And remember, up to 2011 they only paid 6% superannuation
towards their 40/80'ths final salary pension (plus one-off
3x 1st years pension as a tax-free lump sum.).

So why does the NHS struggle to recruit qualified staff?

If it;s like here I've been paying into a final salery scheme for over 30 years.
Last year April 2016 BEFORE BREXIT we got a latter saying teh final salery version is canceled/ended and now what we will get is the average salery version.
One of teh reasons we were told that university tecnical staff were paid 18% less (in about 1986) than the private industry or the medical profession equalalant was because we had a better pension scheme and longer holidays and had a final salery pension.