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[News] Government to partly redress 13 years of chronic Tory underfunding of the NHS



Titanic

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Tory government investing in Our NHS with substantial pay rises for lowest paid staff...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43481341

More than one million NHS staff, including nurses, porters and paramedics, can expect pay increases of at least 6.5% over three years - with some rises being as high as 29%.

The deal has been formally agreed by unions and ministers on Wednesday and could cost as much as £4bn.

Pay rises will be backdated to April this year, if staff agree to the deal.

The deal is tiered - with the lowest paid workers in each job receiving the biggest rises.

The agreement covers all staff on the Agenda for Change contract - about 1.3m across the UK - which is the entire workforce with the exception of doctors, dentists and senior leaders.

The agreement is complex. It says that:

-half will get a 6.5% pay rise over three years
-the other half will receive rises of between 9% and 29%
-the lowest full-time salary - paid to the likes of cleaners, porters and catering staff - will rise by 15% to more than £18,000
-these groups will get an immediate £2,000 rise this year
-a nurse with one year's experience would see their basic pay rise by 21% over three years, giving them a salary of up to £27,400
-the deal includes a commitment on both sides to reduce the high rate of sickness absence in the NHS

Sara Gorton, lead negotiator for the 14 health unions, said: "It won't solve every problem in the NHS but it will go a long way towards making dedicated health staff feel more valued, lift flagging morale and help turn the tide on staffing problems."

What happened to privatisation?
 
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Stat Brother

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Who's been underpaying the NHS staff for the last 13 years?
 




Pavilionaire

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I dare anyone to suggest that the government might have caved in because of a shortage of labour after the reduction in EU applicant numbers following Brexit.
 




Two Professors

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Would have happened a lot sooner if Labour hadn't left the money cupboard bare,and all the banking and finance crooks hadn't bankrupted us again!
 


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Only way they are going to get staff post brexit. Yes, the result is good but a clear demonstration of how after 13 years of treating NHS workers like third class citizens they finally give in when their arms are well and truly twisted. Goof for the staff but I don't celebrate things that should have happened a long, long time ago. Tory scum OUT OUT OUT.
 








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Good. Everyone could see it was desperately needed, what with the massive staff shortages in the NHS which were only getting worse. Hopefully this will arrest the decline.

I'd still like to see more done to recruit doctors and nurses in the first place - by providing more training places and reinstating bursaries. Completely short sighted to remove them in the first place.
 


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Good. Everyone could see it was desperately needed, what with the massive staff shortages in the NHS which were only getting worse. Hopefully this will arrest the decline.

I'd still like to see more done to recruit doctors and nurses in the first place - by providing more training places and reinstating bursaries. Completely short sighted to remove them in the first place.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43463358

Five new medical schools are to be created in England as part of the government's expansion of training places.

The schools will open in Sunderland, Lancashire, Lincoln, Canterbury and Chelmsford over the next three years.

Places at existing schools are also being increased as part of the government's commitment to increase student places by 25%.

It will mean by 2020 there will be 1,500 more students each year.
 




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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43463358

Five new medical schools are to be created in England as part of the government's expansion of training places.

The schools will open in Sunderland, Lancashire, Lincoln, Canterbury and Chelmsford over the next three years.

Places at existing schools are also being increased as part of the government's commitment to increase student places by 25%.

It will mean by 2020 there will be 1,500 more students each year.

I've seen this. It's not enough, which is why I said more needs to be done.
 


ManOfSussex

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Hopefully 33,000 nurses wont leave The NHS this year now as happened last year, because with the nursing bursary now removed it's not as an appealing career move, particularly to mature students and care workers, who will find themselves saddled with debt in middle age meaning not enough new nurses are coming through to replace those leaving - Currently 13% down on new trainee nursing applications for September of this year already.
 






Titanic

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Hilarious thread title edit from [MENTION=3566]hans kraay fan club[/MENTION] :nono:

#ohmysides
 


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Chronic underfunding and now we’re supposed to thank the Tories. This is a bit like thanking someone for them punching you in the stomach instead of the face. Gotta laugh haven’t you.

Nowhere near enough.
 


Herr Tubthumper

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What next? Will they give a crutch back to those they previously kicked both away from?
 




hans kraay fan club

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Hilarious thread title edit from [MENTION=3566]hans kraay fan club[/MENTION] :nono:

You're welcome.

But it wasn't supposed to be funny.

The proliferation of political point scoring threads on the site has got really tedious IMO. Having moderators start them, is a step further down the line.

Your original thread title, cheerleading, as it was, for one party, invited such point-scoring. I reversed it, just to make a point.

Feel free to change it back - I really won't care.
 


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