Institute for Fiscal Studies -
This report examines the effect that variation in the cost of living has on the labour supply of existing nurses in NHS acute trusts. The report focuses on Band 5 and 6 nurses which accounted for 23 per cent of the workforce in NHS acute trusts in 2018. It uses administrative payroll data to examine how trusts and nurses react to changes in the local cost of living, and the impact these changes have on the amount of labour supplied by existing nurses.