Guess you'd need to jail any specialist that refused and quit and reposses their houses and put them and their families into a forced labour camp?
Is that moral? What other options are there? If you were a high-paid specialist being forced to work for no wages, then would you be happy?
Wow! that's quite the leap there, Andy!
I said I'd subcontract them. They could leave if they wanted. Or be paid at the rate that they got working private.
I don't have a problem in consultants/doctors/surgeons/etc being paid well. No problem at all. I do have a problem with shyster 'entrepreneurs' putting in an additional layer of superluous cost just to line their own pockets whilst doing nothing useful.
You can bet that a private healthcare company charging the NHs Ł1,000 an hour for their staff wouldn't be paying the staff Ł1,000 an hour.
Find a way to pay the actual clinical staff directly without lining the pockets of parasite healthcare company shareholders/senior execs.
That's pragmatism for you - as you can employ more clinical staff for taxpayer money and therefore get more operations done/reduce the backlog more quickly.