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This paper attempts to explain three broad trends that underpinned the relationship between the state, market, and healthcare: first, the state is moving away from its health provider role to a regulator role, which involves shifting the resources, authority, and responsibility to diverse public and private actors. Second, in the name of the pandemic, the state has opened up
However, estimations from the research team suggested nurses in these long-running expensive areas were one-and-a-half times more likely to leave in response to a cost-of-living increase than nurses in other areas.
Other findings within the report suggested that nurses would also “reduce the amount of labour supplied to NHS acute trusts in response to increases in the cost of living”.
“Among those who remain employed by trusts, they work fewer hours and reduce the amount of bank work they provide,” said the report, titled Cost of Living and the Impact on Nursing Labour in NHS Acute Trusts.
The report stressed that nurse retention problems were “costly to trusts, which must replace these staff with new permanent or temporary employees and is likely to cause disruption in the provision of care to patients”.