Told you so.

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...Research from the King's Fund, an independent health watchdog, shows that 59% of the extra money pumped into the NHS since 2001, the point at which the taps where turned on, has gone on staff pay. Consultants and GPs have had salary increases worth up to 50% over three years, with GPs now earning more than £100,000 a year on average. Nurses have also had substantial increases....
....... NHS productivity is still falling by at least 1% a year. No fewer than a quarter of NHS trusts are now in financial deficit.

Nurses of course, were last in line for pay, will now perhaps have to pay for the increases with job losses ... Which gives an easy out for the rest, 'not enough nurses' is the problem, probably always was the case !!
James Gray was elected Member of Parliament for North Wiltshire in May 1997 and he has been voicferous ......

.......we have something called the Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire strategic health authority, what it is for, I know not, which spends huge sums on bureaucrats, all of them driving BMWs, and on a posh office in my constituency. What is happening? They are closing Malmesbury hospital as a result, closing a hospital to spend the money on admin.......

LINK to J.Gray speeches
And he is right on!!