Thread: Smoking in public places to be banned
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Old 13-06-2004, 22:23   #90
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Re: Smoking to be banned
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Originally Posted by fireman328
Approximately 80% of NHS expenditure is staff wages, Doctors, Nurses, Domestics etc. so the only way the NHS could save money, if smoking were banned, would be to make staff redundant, who wants to be the person who sacks the first consultant ?
Incidentally the NHS employs more people than the entire Red army had at disposal during the "cold war" days.
If the consultant is sitting about unoccupied, then I would quite happily be the one to sack them. Are you suggesting that people should be on the payroll for the sake of it even if their services are not required?!
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