IEA Labour Market Expert Professor Len Shackleton has been quoted in The Daily Mail arguing that it would be wrong to give in to highly-paid NHS consultants’ demands for higher salaries during a cost-of-living squeeze.

Len said:

“This is not the time for the best-paid doctors to hold out for huge pay increases while nurses have had to accept lower increases. For all the hype about 75 years of our wonderful NHS, many taxpayers who depend on it are getting increasingly disgruntled.

“We need a comprehensive reform of the NHS to boost productivity and access. Stuffing consultants’ mouths with gold, as Nye Bevan once put it, would do nothing to help with this.”

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