John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation 10/ Compare that to the "whole economy" and the differences are simply flabbergasting. NHS = BRUTAL Real-terms Cuts - £4-42k/ each and every year DOWN Whole economy = NOT so much - £1k/yr down - £2k/yr UP Please *ANY* politician tell me this is "FAIR" or REASONABLE 👇

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation 11/ Or maybe someone from the Bank of England pipe up and tell us inflation is "hurting" us all, and we should show "restraint" I think the public sector, and the NHS has been "restrained" a little too tightly, dont you?👇

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation 12/ As noted above, I have used CPI for these charts essentially because that is what the government prefers to use (when it suits them, not in student loans where they use RPI which generally runs higher).

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation 13/ You will see that most other commentators also tend to use CPI (or CPIH) when describing pay loss including John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times, Tom Calver @TheTimes, Ben Zaranko Institute for Fiscal Studies, @Billy_Palmer_ Nuffield Trust

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation Tom Calver The Times and The Sunday Times Ben Zaranko Institute for Fiscal Studies @Billy_Palmer_ Nuffield Trust 14/ With the exception of the outstanding JBM at the FT, who starts his pay charts at the start of "austerity" (which was when serious pay erosion started), all others arbitrarily choose Aug 2010 as a start as this is when one of the NHS digital data sets starts

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation Tom Calver The Times and The Sunday Times Ben Zaranko Institute for Fiscal Studies @Billy_Palmer_ Nuffield Trust 15/ Its perfectly possible to stitch this together to earlier copies of the same pay data (needing a small adjustment to account for the different junior grades recorded by headcount), and I would encourage those commentators to do that - otherwise its very unscientific…

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation Tom Calver The Times and The Sunday Times Ben Zaranko Institute for Fiscal Studies Billy Palmer Nuffield Trust 16/ …comparing apples with oranges when they are INVARIABLY quoted by the media (or by politicians) comparing to other figures including from the BMA and others.

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation Tom Calver The Times and The Sunday Times Ben Zaranko Institute for Fiscal Studies Billy Palmer Nuffield Trust 17/ It may sound like I'm nitpicking but it makes a BIG difference - all unions generally start from the beginning of austerity (and use RPI as a better guide to household costs). The rest of the economy has caught up (as per the charts), now its the turn of the public sector.

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation Tom Calver The Times and The Sunday Times Ben Zaranko Institute for Fiscal Studies Billy Palmer Nuffield Trust 18/ Another annoyance is that politicians, the media, and even some of the experts above have conflated pay loss figures with pay restoration figures (or not corrected journos who make this mistake). There's a great little @thebma video explaining this 👇 x.com/TheBMA/status/…

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation Tom Calver The Times and The Sunday Times Ben Zaranko Institute for Fiscal Studies Billy Palmer Nuffield Trust The BMA 19/ So theoretically, even taking a pay erosion of 26.3% as per below (and remember thats using CPI) would require 35.7% to restore. Take £100. Erode it by 26.3% you have £73.70. To get back to £100 you need 35.7%. That's NOT a "pay rise" as such, just restoring what you had.

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation Tom Calver The Times and The Sunday Times Ben Zaranko Institute for Fiscal Studies Billy Palmer Nuffield Trust The BMA 20/ A poll yesterday (even by the pro-conservative government Daily Mail), showed the most important of @rishisunak's 5 priorities - by FAR - is REDUCE WAITING TIMES - even amongst Tory voters in 2019 . Those waiting list are really zip all to do with strikes (look at the 📈 )

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation Tom Calver The Times and The Sunday Times Ben Zaranko Institute for Fiscal Studies Billy Palmer Nuffield Trust The BMA Rishi Sunak 21/ There is quite literally not a whisker between @uklabour & @conservatives in 4 of Rishi's targets (debt, boats, inflation, growth) But where there is a HUGE gap is the NHS (25vs44%) 👇 The next election WILL be about the NHS.

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation Tom Calver The Times and The Sunday Times Ben Zaranko Institute for Fiscal Studies Billy Palmer Nuffield Trust The BMA Rishi Sunak The Labour Party Conservatives 22/ And the NHS's most valuable commodity is its staff. And how those staff are valued is a #politicalchoice. Just like waiting lists - its a political choice to fund the NHS (and its staff) adequately, or allow it to go into terminally decline. Voters are watching 👀

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Transformation Tom Calver The Times and The Sunday Times Ben Zaranko Institute for Fiscal Studies Billy Palmer Nuffield Trust The BMA Rishi Sunak The Labour Party Conservatives 23/ Our NHS is in a DIRE state. None of this is due to striking NHS workers, or (just) covid, but due to political choices UK Prime Minister RT if you want this (or the next) government to make the choices to fix this mess now & properly #payrestoration #fixDDRB

Addendum 1 - Tweet 8 was intended to show this chart including a highlight 8/ You see there was an important * next to the data for nurses (& chart👇) Nurses 📷 😔 Nurses ⬇️📷 -8.4%*, prev -12.8% Both the numbers & the chart APPEAR to show an improvement. Thats due to a

Addendum 2 - Tweet 19 included the prior pay chart (to March '23); the correct pay chart (to June '23) is below 19/ So theoretically, even taking a pay erosion of 26.3% as per below (and remember thats using CPI) would require 35.7% to restore. Take £100. Erode it by 26.3%

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