After he made the pledge in January 2023, the waiting list continued to rise for a few months, hitting a record high in September 2023, since when it has shown a slight fall. An estimated 7.54 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of March, relating to...
◼︎ Nurses need a restorative pay rise of 15% – and the government could choose to make that happen, it’s a political choice. ◼︎77% of the public support a 10% pay rise for all nurses (Yougov) and 78% of public support an annual pay rise for all nurses (Yougov) ◼...
Since 2017, there has been a 2% increase in UK-trained medical graduates joining the workforce. By comparison, in the same time period, there has been a 121% rise in international medical graduates. Of the doctors who joined the UK workforce in 2023, 50% were international medic...
This disparity in pay can have a negative effect on staff morale and productivity. Basic pay for health chiefs, including ward managers, human resources directors and finance officers, has soared since last September. Senior hospital managers have been enjoying a two per cent pay rise while hard...
Unison workers accept latest pay offer while junior doctors strike "The main impact that we're currently seeing is that in order to find enough capacity to cover for the people who are striking, the NHS is having to postpone significant numbers of planned elective care, whether that is opera...
Once again, with the sharp rise in Covid-19 infections happening nation-wide the EDN are making a third appeal in their need for scrubs to help support the NHS. sharetwitterfacebook EDN stands for Emergency Designer Network and consists of London-based designers, Holly Fulton, Phoebe English ...
The BMA has said junior doctors have suffered a "pay erosion" of 26% over the last 15 years as their wages have failed to keep up with inflation. They have demanded a 35% pay rise to reverse this.
A Whitehall union has said that civil servants must not get left behind on public sector pay after a deal was agreed to give most NHS staff a cap-busting 6.5% rise over three years – and some staff an increase of 29%. The deal for NHS staff, which ...
Consultants have been offered a 6% rise - a figure the BMA described as "insulting", claiming consultants have experienced a "35% pay erosion" over the last 14 years. "My door is always open to discuss how we can work together with NHS staff to improve their working lives...
The union said junior doctors have suffered a "pay erosion" of 26% over the last 15 years as their wages have failed to keep up with inflation. They have demanded a 35% pay rise to reverse this. Four in ten junior doctors are looking to leave the NHS, according to the...