The shadow health secretary has slammed the government for handing out "inflation-busting" pay rises in the health sector. It comes as nurses rejected the government's offer of a 5.5% pay rise after junior doctors voted to accept a pay offer worth an extra 22.3%.
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Nursing staff and doctors with long Covid are still being denied essential financial support, two years after the government’s own scientific advisory body recommended action, according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Nicola Ranger, General Secretary of the RCN, criticised the current financial assistance, stating it "does not adequately support medical and nursing staff." She is urging long Covid to be officially recognised as an occupational disease. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Mick Whelan, general secretary of Aslef, has said his members are “pleased” with a new pay deal that will see the end of more than two years of strike action. Aslef union members accepted an offer..
Monday, 23 September 2024
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