RE: Government-Commissioned Paper12 Dec 2022 21:59
Let me give you some facts about the NHS:
- After adjusting for inflation, the real-terms salary for someone at the top of band 5 (the highest band for nurses) actually fell by 9% between 2010/11 and 2019/20. This is obviously far worse now in 2022 with rampant inflation.
- More than 27,000 medics left the NHS in the third quarter of last year, the highest number on record and approximately 2 per cent of the entire workforce, according to NHS England figures.
- If we account for inflation, the largest amounts of money spent on the NHS in England was between 2004/05 and 2009/10. Tories are not putting any more money into the coffers than Labour.
- Demand for NHS care is expected to increase because of longer lifespans and rising cost of treatments. NHS costs increased by Β£11bn from 2011/12 to 2016/17.
So, lower or stagnating wages for over a decade for staff who have been overworked to the point that 2% of the workforce has left in the last six months alone. Costs of medical treatment and number of patience is increasing and the Tories are, when accounting for inflation, not actually putting more money into the system than Labour were. And that isn't even taking into consideration the impact Brexit has probably has on all of the above.
So, really sorry to crash your party with actual information. Skier, just really struggles to understand numbers and sometimes the adults have to come in and talk very slowly to him.