The pay offer to nurses on its own should have people on the streets in some kind of socially distanced protest. Giving those people, after what they’ve been through and the sacrifices they have made, a real terms pay cut is beyond a joke. It’s absolutely disgusting.
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I dont think I’ve ever seen such an out of touch and arrogant bunch as those we currently have. They really do feel they can do whatever they like.
But again the nurse thing is again all about pushing the NHS towards privatisation. I seriously hope people wake up to this soon.
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While I know a number of the cabinet are open to privatisation I don’t think the nurses pay issue is anything to do with that but public sector pay restraint.
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The payrise issue gets worse. BBC 5Live just said a payrise of twice the one now offered was originally factored in but the Treasury apparently said it was unaffordable. That’s worse than just squeezing out a payrise of 1%, surely? Actually looking at 2% and thinking…“Nah, that’s TOO much”.
As for privatising the NHS nobody’s done more towards that than Blair and the proportion of NHS that is privatised remains unchanged since Labour. But for some reason, the Tories are painted as always being literally 12 months from selling it all off.
Smoke, mirrors and slight of hand. “Everybody look over here at what this hand is doing!” whilst using the other to stuff bundles of cash into one’s back pocket.
Sleeze will end this eventually. Hello Andy Burnham.
Every election “They’re going to sell off the NHS!!!” Me “They must be shit at it as they’ve apparently been doing this for 20 years…”
But put a few £££ on council tax and give all NHS staff a good pay-rise. Dead easy, just do it.
Not sure what is the level of salary of healthcare workers in UK but in Singapore, the healthcare sector especially at the lower level of the hierachy, has always been underpaid. The doctors are ok in terms of salary but the nurses, assistants etc are always doing way more than what they are paid even during normal times, so it was quite pleasing when the government just announced a few days ago that all healthcare workers with get a payrise of 3-14% over the next 2 years with nurses getting slightly higher at 5-14%. I think that is the right thing to do. EDIT: Doctors are not included in this payrise and Rightly so, not saying that doctors do not deserve it but overall their salary has always been comfortably above median income for most of them.
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Too much anger in this thread 
The pay in France for nurses was so bad that percentage increases weren’t even concidered they got a 183 euro increase a month in 2 staggered intervals. I mean what is 1%? tuppence a month?
is that considered good enough in France or not?
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It was considered a minimum revaloriseation, a step in the right direction at best. No more no less. There wasn’t a beep from anyone against it.
ok in any case, in current situation that is at least showing goodwill towards one of the most, if not the most, overworked and overstretched sector in any country in the world.
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Average nurse salary in the UK
“The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has estimated that an average NHS nurse’s pay is £33,384.”
So 1% would, on average, be £334 in the year. Although I think the 1% is actually 1.7% because it’s on top of the 0.7% already happening?
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I agree on the pay rise issue but ir was Thatcher that started it with the formation of the individual trusts as a move to basically make them businesses in their own right. Blair certainly horsed on with it though.
I think the Tory thing is basically because privatisation fits their policies. And let’s be honest, if it were politically safe to do so, they would.
Another 30 pounds a month. Its still money of course but if I am offered that, personally, I would take it as an insult.
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Very possible, but let’s not pretend that they really don’t give a monkeys about these people. If they all left and joined private health care firms tomorrow they wouldn’t care a jot.
But as you rightly posted, it’s yet more Austerity under a camouflage blanket.
1% increase in nurses pay in the UK is only 20 pounds increase for many a month. That’s the problem when using percentages the difference between the bottom and the top gets larger. It’s just such a crap way of revalorising wages!
That’s why in France they decided on a straight forward revalorisation.
Well, at the same time they’re adjusting the pay grades to address exactly that issue. Hence the 1.7%.
I’m not pretending anything.