Tim Dower: We aren't dangling a big enough carrot for our jobs

Best of Business · Apr 11, 2023 · 1m

More questions than answers, for me, on the residency carrot finally being dangled in a desperate attempt to plug gaps in the health sector.

Winter's looming, we're worried about another wave of Covid and all the other seasonal sniffles and the health system is already crying out for staff.

So, from now, another 32 job roles go on the green list. If you've got a qualification, you're in.

Have we left it too late? It looks like it.

Have all the decent people looking to move already gone somewhere else? Probably.

And by opening the gates so wide now, do we expose ourselves to the risk of…