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More or Less: Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

15/02/2023

Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less, Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

We look at how much nurses in the UK are paid compared with those in Europe.

How much do nurses in the UK earn compared with those elsewhere in Europe? Tim Harford and the team investigate. Also we have an update on ambulance response times, which were the worst on record in December but are showing signs of improvement. Should we use the word data in the singular or plural? The Financial Times has just changed its policy and Tim’s not happy. We look back at women who have made a key contribution to economics but have often been forgotten. And we hear how a spreadsheet error by the Office for National Statistics made the UK’s productivity appear to be one of the fastest improving in Europe.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Series producer: Jon Bithrey
Reporters: Josephine Casserly, Nathan Gower, Perisha Kudhail
Editor: Charlotte McDonald
Production Co-ordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound Engineer: Rod Farquhar

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