Health union attacks government pay offer

U.K.

The UK Department of Health is proposing a 1.5% pay increase for nurses and other healthworkers as part of is evidence to the Pay Review Body. The Pay Review Body is the government appointed body which assesses evidence from both sides and recommends pay increases and other changes to working conditions to the government. UNISON head of health and president of EPSU's health standing committee Karen Jennings said: ""It is outrageous to suggest that, unless staff take what is effectively a pay cut, jobs will go and patients will suffer. This is completely unnecessary when the Treasury has pledged an 8% increase in the NHS budget for next year."
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