Ministers force NHS England to cover part of 3% staff pay rise

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Ministers are forcing the NHS to cover part of the cost of its 3% staff pay rise in a move which health service chiefs say could lead to cuts in patient care.

The NHS in England will have to find about £500m to help fund the 3% increase that the health secretary, Sajid Javid, announced on Wednesday, despite already struggling to meet the extra costs of the pandemic, including the care backlog, and treatment for the soaring numbers of people with “long Covid”.

Ministers are also facing mounting anger from the medical profession after it emerged that tens of thousands of doctors have been excluded from the 3% deal, despite the government’s advisers on NHS pay specifically recommending that they also be rewarded for helping to tackle Covid-19.

Traditionally, the Treasury meets the full cost of annual pay rises for NHS personnel. However, Boris Johnson has decided that the service will have to help shoulder at least part of the bill for the 3% uplift, payable to more than a million staff for 2021-22 and backdated to April.


What a con 😡 How can this make sense? The government tells the NHS what to pay their staff, but doesn't give them the money to do it :( Makes you wonder why they didn't offer 10% if they didn't expect it to cost them anything :(
 
Surely they can use the £350m a week we’re saving by Brexit? That’s what it said on that bus. Or the money they making from raising the age for free prescriptions. And they could easily raise the money by increasing fuel tax by a penny, or alcohol and tobacco tax.

As a wider point, the junior doctors in England are in the middle of a 2% per annum rise previously negotiated, which is why they have been excluded. Whether that’s beside the point is a another matter, it only just keeps up with inflation and RPI, and certainly doesn’t cover the years of wage freeze. And that con is not included in the Scottish NHS offer of 4%, or any other of the devolved nations. It wouldn’t enter their heads, it’s such a nasty, wicked act.
 
They'll be too late whatever they do - Pete chatting to 'random' clinic receptionist and nurse at the main Queen Elizabeth Hospital (ie home of B'ham Uni Med School) on Thursday at approx 08.30 whilst waiting to go in for appt - neither have ever known so very many nurses calling it quits having resigned to go and work at eg Marks & Sparks. Jobs ARE available for anyone prepared to work. Ex nurses are. They are more than used to having to do so. They have consistently tried to make the NHS fail and 'S' Javid is no different now to how he has always been.

Nowt to do with NHS, but - Nobody lasts long at Amazon usually - because they all have to work! One of our GD's doesn't get on well with any number of her colleagues there because she keeps getting promoted since she is prepared to work - and does, consistently!
 
They'll be too late whatever they do - Pete chatting to 'random' clinic receptionist and nurse at the main Queen Elizabeth Hospital (ie home of B'ham Uni Med School) on Thursday at approx 08.30 whilst waiting to go in for appt - neither have ever known so very many nurses calling it quits having resigned to go and work at eg Marks & Sparks. Jobs ARE available for anyone prepared to work. Ex nurses are. They are more than used to having to do so. They have consistently tried to make the NHS fail and 'S' Javid is no different now to how he has always been.

Nowt to do with NHS, but - Nobody lasts long at Amazon usually - because they all have to work! One of our GD's doesn't get on well with any number of her colleagues there because she keeps getting promoted since she is prepared to work - and does, consistently!
Don't I remember Boris in the 2019 election promising '50,000 new nurses', which, when examined closely, depended on retaining 30,000 i.e. not losing them over the ensuing period of government? He's going a funny way about it :( And you're absolutely right about being willing to work hard - one of the things that I remember most vividly about my period in hospital at diagnosis was just how bloody hard they worked - not just nurses, but all of them - and it brought a comparison to mind of many of the people that I worked with at the time: people working nowhere near as hard but 'earning' three or four times as much 😱

And don't get me started on that completely clueless video Javid posted, saying how happy they'd be with all that extra money in their pockets, and how it showed just how much the government thought of them - well, he got the last part right! 😡
 
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