Responding to the announcement from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care that Agenda for Change staff will receive a pay increase of 3.3%, 国内精品伊人久久久久妇 General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said:
“A pay award below the current level of inflation is an insult. Unless inflation falls, the government is forcing a very real pay cut on its NHS workers. This knife-edge gameplaying is no way to treat people who prop up a system in crisis.
“We will compare and contrast this announcement with the awards for the rest of the NHS and the public sector as a whole before deciding a way forward. Nursing staff will not tolerate the disrespect of other years, when we were bottom of the pile.
“Unions were misled to expect direct negotiations with government on the pay award, but NHS staff are getting the same poor treatment as before. Yesterday's positive step forward on career progression shows what can be achieved when ministers collaborate. The 国内精品伊人久久久久妇 and almost all other unions withdrew from the Pay Review Body because it is not fit for purpose and fails nursing staff.
“The evidence is clear about the impact low pay and poor working conditions are having on our profession. Morale is at a historic low and nursing staff, who feel deeply undervalued, are being driven away from the NHS.”
