Study into the NHS: NHS haemorrhaging nurses due to many finding better opportunities abroad, including many EU nationals going back home or elsewhere.
They may say it's due to the 'b' word (
) but it's just as likely the poor pound to euro exchange rate meaning other EU job offer paying better than UK ones. Then factor in the living expenses, particularly accommodation and not hard to see why Eastern Europe may be getting more popular with East Europeans. 
Summed up by a recently graduated nurse who says better living conditions abroad and she is tempted to follow others she knows who have taken the decision to go working abroad.
Ends up in a death spiral where the younger upwardly mobile (not tied down with kids or a mortgage, they can't afford one while house prices are ridiculously high) nurses leave, the older ones retire after 55 (more pressure on the pension ponzi scheme), and the remaining nurses are overworked and stressed out so either leave or their health suffers and they need to book themselves in with their colleagues for treatment. The NHS bed shortage problem is all the sick nurses taking them, probably.
So when an organisation relies on too many 'short term' resources they are mismanaging themselves into a crisis. Seen it myself at a clientco reliant on contractors, money ran out to pay for the extra expense, ended up outsourcing large parts of the company and making many of the remaining permies redundant. All because they put short term budgeting before long term prospetity, i.e. bad management.
The government solution: Tax the contractors to incentivise them take the crappy permie jobs, and bring in more foreign 'permies' that are really disguised contractors
who will up sticks when a better opportunity presents itself aboad. In meantime consultancies fleece the clients to fill the shortfall.
The real solution: Lower the cost of living so local population willing to do the jobs at current pay rates and less need to rely on foreign sources of workers.
They may say it's due to the 'b' word (
) but it's just as likely the poor pound to euro exchange rate meaning other EU job offer paying better than UK ones. Then factor in the living expenses, particularly accommodation and not hard to see why Eastern Europe may be getting more popular with East Europeans. Summed up by a recently graduated nurse who says better living conditions abroad and she is tempted to follow others she knows who have taken the decision to go working abroad.
Ends up in a death spiral where the younger upwardly mobile (not tied down with kids or a mortgage, they can't afford one while house prices are ridiculously high) nurses leave, the older ones retire after 55 (more pressure on the pension ponzi scheme
), and the remaining nurses are overworked and stressed out so either leave or their health suffers and they need to book themselves in with their colleagues for treatment. The NHS bed shortage problem is all the sick nurses taking them, probably. So when an organisation relies on too many 'short term' resources they are mismanaging themselves into a crisis. Seen it myself at a clientco reliant on contractors, money ran out to pay for the extra expense, ended up outsourcing large parts of the company and making many of the remaining permies redundant. All because they put short term budgeting before long term prospetity, i.e. bad management.
The government solution: Tax the contractors to incentivise them take the crappy permie jobs, and bring in more foreign 'permies' that are really disguised contractors
who will up sticks when a better opportunity presents itself aboad. In meantime consultancies fleece the clients to fill the shortfall.The real solution: Lower the cost of living so local population willing to do the jobs at current pay rates and less need to rely on foreign sources of workers.
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