NHS chief accuses Jeremy Hunt of 'own goal' over pay rises

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The head of the NHS has rejected Jeremy Hunt’s insistence that its staff’s pay rise next year should depend on them improving their productivity as “an own goal of the first magnitude”.

Simon Stevens’s remarks set him on a collision course with the health secretary weeks before the budget, in which Philip Hammond is expected to set out what salary increase the NHS’s 1.7 million staff will get from next April.

Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, also made clear that the government had to give the service the full amount of extra money needed to cover the cost of whatever award is finally made.

Speaking at a conference on Tuesday of the NHS managers’ union Managers in Partnership, Stevens said that ministers “have some big choices coming up over the next year or two” on what to do about NHS pay.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...ccuses-jeremy-hunt-of-own-goal-over-pay-rises
 
Jeremy Hunt is now Cockney rhyming slang for...####...that's his legacy
 
So, conditions added to the pay rise. Slimy git. The pay rise didn’t even cover inflation, let alone correcting years of underpayment.
 
mikeyB said:
So, conditions added to the pay rise. Slimy git. The pay rise didn’t even cover inflation, let alone correcting years of underpayment.
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I don't know why they won't raise money with a tax increase, a majority of people have said they would support that. If it turns out, like the police, that the NHS is expected to find a rise from elsewhere in their budget, then it's no concession at all :( 😡
 
Northerner said:
I don't know why they won't raise money with a tax increase, a majority of people have said they would support that. If it turns out, like the police, that the NHS is expected to find a rise from elsewhere in their budget, then it's no concession at all :( 😡
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I agree I would happily pay a bit more tax, so long as it was ring fenced for equipment meds etc and those on the shop floor, not for the upper echelons though.
 
The chances of a tax being ring fenced is minimal. National Insurance is just a tax- it hasn’t been ring fenced since the 1950s, and people even now still think it’s used for pensions and the health service.
 
mikeyB said:
The chances of a tax being ring fenced is minimal. National Insurance is just a tax- it hasn’t been ring fenced since the 1950s, and people even now still think it’s used for pensions and the health service.
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You’re right, their is imo fat chance of it being ring fenced one can only hope though.
 
In any event, no Conservative government will ever raise taxes. At least, not direct taxes. They’ll cheerfully raise VAT, which hits less well off folk harder than rich people.

The EU sets the minimum VAT rate at 15%. Not a single politician has said that we could drop the VAT rate to 5% after Brexit and make everything cheaper. Wonder why.
 
mikeyB said:
In any event, no Conservative government will ever raise taxes. At least, not direct taxes. They’ll cheerfully raise VAT, which hits less well off folk harder than rich people.

The EU sets the minimum VAT rate at 15%. Not a single politician has said that we could drop the VAT rate to 5% after Brexit and make everything cheaper. Wonder why.
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I heard Rees-Mogg say on question time that we could reduce VAT after Brexit but not to what level.
 
One thing they could do is stop the ludicrous situation where Scottish emergency services - police and fire - have to pay VAT on stuff they purchase. It’s the only country in the UK where this happens. If the police didn’t have to pay VAT they could afford 700 more officers, so we’re not talking pennies here. Why Scotland is penalised this way I don’t know, but it does add to the impression that the UK government has something against this country.
 
I should imagine VAT will increase, not decrease after brexit. As for Rees-Mog, don't even get me started on that mysogynistic twerp 😡
 
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