Giving oral evidence to the Committee, Professor David Bell from the University of Stirling, argued that if additional resources were insufficient for salaries in the health sector to keep pace with inflation, more work would be needed to address other working terms and conditions to retain staff: “If there is increasing disenchantment with the real levels of pay that people are getting, that means almost redoubling the effort to make sure that conditions are suitable and that, even given the cost of living...