The UK government has rejected calls to offer higher salaries to employees working on digitising the NHS in England to help boost their numbers, after a call from MPs.1
A report from the House of Committee Health and Social Care Committee, published in June, identified several challenges for digital transformation across the NHS, including a “lack of basic functioning IT equipment” and a shortage of specialist IT staff.2 Increasing salaries was offered as a key solution to tackling staff shortages to make pay more competitive with …