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A proposed 1% pay rise for NHS staff is not a real-terms cut, the Health Secretary has said. Matt Hancock told a committee of MPs that NHS workers had been “carved out” of the pay freeze across the rest of the public sector due to the pressure on public funds. Giving evidence to ...
Public sector pay rise: Is it enough? Dr Vivek Trivedi, the co-chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health service employers and Anita Smith, a teacher at a secondary school in North Leeds...
Pay rise sparks fears of NHS cash shortfall.(News)Chancellor Mr Gordon Brown yesterday warned he would not relax spending limits after giving...By GrayChris
In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison Fri Jul 14 2023 - 05:00 Irish nurses and the NHS: My heart sank. I thought, ‘God, what have I got myself into’? With the 75th anniversary of England’s National Health Service this week, it’s time to celebrate the role played by generati...
Would a pay rise improve dwindling NHS morale?, RT, 19 January 2021 Fake news, dangerous conspiracy theories and disinformation, Morning Star, 18 January 2021 ‘Chronic underfunding’ has left NHS unable to cope as hospitals face record delays on treatments, Morning Star, 14 January 20212020Novem...
Pints, planes and pay: What's changing after Reeves' Budget? The chancellor said she had to make 'difficult decisions' to fix the country's creaking public services.Credit:PA Fury from farmers: Analysis from ITV News Political Correspondent Carl Dinnen ...
Labour leader Keir Starmer called for a pay rise for NHS staff in the wake of the pandemic. "It's very important that we don't just say thanks, but recognise in a meaningful way what the NHS has done," he told a rally celebrating the anniversary. ...
As for the BBC belief that ‘Everyone wants to pay more tax to fund the NHS’ – I suspect that everyone is happy for taxes to rise to fund the NHS – as long as they are not their own taxes, but someone else’s. At present we see mass abuse of our health system. That must ...
Rachel Harrison, GMB national secretary, said: “GMB members working across the NHS and ambulance service in England have welcomed this first step towards restoring their pay to pre-austerity levels. “The Pay Review Body recommendation was the first above-inflation pay rise for NHS workers in mo...