Director of the Royal College of Nursing NI Janice Smyth said fundamental reform of the health system in Northern Ireland was needed.

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The most fundamental one remains the Baumol effect: labour-intensive services, such as nursing and teaching, have thus far proved as immune to productivity-enhancing technology as string quartets.

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