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  1. A health service pay rise will have an economic multiplier of a minimum of around 0.8 and if the pay rise enables less recruitment and fewer days spent on agency staff + higher patient throughput that value can be > 1 Anything over 1 pays for itself 0.8 costs the treasury 20p in the pound The 1st thing that happens with any pay rise is the government take their slice back for a graduate that's near on 50% these days, the rest is spent in the wider economy where it starts its merry go round of spend and tax
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  2. A health service pay rise will have an economic multiplier of a minimum of around 0.8 and if the pay rise enables less recruitment and fewer days spent on agency staff + higher patient throughput that value can be > 1 Anything over 1 pays for itself 0.8 costs the treasury 20p in the pound The 1st thing that happens with any pay rise is the government take their slice back for a graduate that's near on 50% these days  @MCDONALD6969 
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