Hospitals across income levels report the same problem in different accents: beds and buildings exist, but the staff to run them do not.
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Migration compounds the imbalance. Wealthier systems recruit trained clinicians from countries that paid to educate them, a transfer rarely counted in aid statistics.
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Retention is the cheaper lever. Rota predictability, childcare and administrative relief consistently outperform one-off bonuses in the studies that track why clinicians leave.
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Until workforce planning is treated with the seriousness given to procurement, additional funding will keep producing smaller improvements than ministers expect.
