Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Rachel Reeves’ increase in employers’ national insurance is going to cost the NHS dear" video.

  1. Depends on the job doesn't it. The job determines which payscale, and then hours worked, service, and location. So we're guesing, which isn't a good way to construct a grounded and factual assessment. You need the numbers of people at each band, within each payscale, and the median hours worked for each and the median pay. Then one can make a decent guess. And remember some nurses do agency work as well. So that needs to be noted. HMRC Should have real-time PAYE data for NHS staff, and the appropriate select committee could asked for a analysis to be done on that anonymised data.
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  2. Because it would need granular data of people were actually earning individually, in order to calculate the employers contribution accurately. Just saying how many employees gives not even a good starting point because of how NI contributions are structured. It's not a flat rate tax. It's capped at a certain level of earnings. And a a heal are assistant, will earn less than a qualified nurse, who will earn less than a registrar, or a junior doctor, who will earn less than a consultant. If you research NHS pay, you will find it complicated not just by pay scales, but by grading as well, and depending on one's length of service at your grade, your pay will fall on or between the minimum and maximum on your pay scake
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  3. Sorry, but NHS pay is much more complex than that. There are many professions employed within the NHS, and their pay is impacted by their job, their grade, their length of service, location, and hours. It's highly individualised, so just the number of employees without access to payroll data isn't the way to make even a reasonable estimate. The Dept of Health and Socare will have that, but not members of the public.
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  4. No he wasn't. John Macdonalds was.
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  5. But as employees, the staff employed by the NHS will force it to incur extra employers NI contributions if the proposal is accurate.
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