Quote Originally Posted by blue matt View Post
or do you employ the 11th nurse and give them a 10% pay rise, ignore the debts and leave it to the fairies to fix
Announced this evening that Philip Rutnam received £340,000 plus legal costs, as part of payout from the Home Offices.

Flippant point: how many nurses do you get if you trade in this Home Secretary for someone a bit better at the job?

Don't forget: "Nicky Morgan defended the Conservative manifesto pledge that there will be 50,000 more nurses in 10 years, despite figures suggesting 19,000 will be retained staff," which means there was expectation to lose 19,000 nurses in 10 years and Tories planned on taking action to reverse that loss. Has there been anything done so far, including in any of the budgets, to reverse loss of 19,000 nurses?

Slightly more serious point: it seems there is always money to spend if it fits the government's/minister's priorities and always difficult to find it if it doesn't. It's simply wrong to think about finances in the same way as a household finances.