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Anon 3.27
Absolutely, apart from which you only have to look at the interim agencies, whose day rates have not only nearly halved but vacancies have dropped off a cliff too - although that market's picked up slightly over the last month. But although I don't agree with Patrick about the tsunami of expensive people (there isn't the money and what little there is, is probably earmarked for redundancies), I do agree with what he says about NHS staff having to do far more work with fewer people. In my SHA region, the view is very much "if you take the cheque, you're not coming back" so it's a very different place now. And yes, I do remember previous reorganisations where people did very well financially, only to pop up again in a different post a few months later, but I can't see it happening now on the same scale. There are some individuals who've been moved around the system in "unknown" ways, perhaps to preserve corporate memory or keep their experience within the NHS, but even they're on fixed term contracts - as is everybody's really.