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Academic
Mairi Spowage
Professor, Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 20 Feb 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Mairi Spowage: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor, Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute
- Quoted on
- NHS & care workforce/staffing
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 28 Feb 2026
- First quoted
- 20 Feb 2026
04 On the record · press
What Mairi Spowage has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- caithness-business.co.uk
- scotsman.com
Where Mairi Spowage has been quoted
- Reckoning on public sector pay deferred until after the electioncaithness-business.co.uk · 28 Feb 2026
- Economists attack SNP for 'can-kicking strategy' over looming public pay crisisscotsman.com · 20 Feb 2026
How we found the articles that name Mairi Spowage: we searched news for these terms.
- NHS workforce
- staff shortages
- nursing shortage
- nurse recruitment
- care workforce
- care worker pay
- social care workforce
- NHS long term workforce plan
Also searched with “NHS workforce” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for NHS & care workforce/staffing
Verbatim
“The health service and the adult social care system will be front and centre of the spending pressures faced by the incoming administration, and the post-school education system will be key to delivering the economy necessary to fund the public services that Scotland expects and needs.”
“The next Scottish Parliament will need to make hard choices, and the electorate needs parties to be honest about the scale of the challenges and how they plan to tackle them.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
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- New nursing research leader appointed for Wales | Nursing Timesnursingtimes.net
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