1% Payrise for NHS workers

Minted? Nurses? Nice try!

I think it is an astounding kick in the teeth for NHS workers who have sweated their guts out to save our feckless, corrupt and incompetent government from presiding over an even greater slaughter of UK citizens in the past year.

Never mind, tories are ahead in the polls. There are clearly more mean minded voters in the UK, like the example we've seen on this thread, than there are voters who value key workers and our NHS.

Nurses are minted! Who knew. I wonder why there is a staff shortage then. All those poor furloughed workers sitting at home watching Netflix, they could have been earning a fortune working 12 hour shifts on a cover ward.

1% does seem an insult, given the past year of tremendously stressful work for all NHS workers. If they won't offer a bigger pay rise, why not special one off bonus. My son, who works in the City, gets one every year based on results and I reckon NHS people much more deserving . I know they can count on a decent pension but we are in crisis times.

Nice try silverlining but no, they were (are) minted and loved volunteering for the extra shifts!

I don’t have to imagine it. (No pay rise for years). I was working in the NHS when George Osborne intoduced his stupid austerity measures. My utility bills went up & my wages stayed static.

Nurses are surely in a good job. Good public sector pensions. I feel more sorry for furloughed workers right now who have only been getting 80% of their wages. Yes, okay, some (not all by any means) have saved on huge travelling expenses but let’s realise, quite a big number won’t have a job to return to this September.

Perhaps if your 3 friends were adequately paid on the first place there would be no need for extra shifts.

Maybe just the 3 nurses I know then? Extra shifts. Bank agency work on top of retirement at 55y drawing down their private pensions?
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The 3% increase was after 10 years of no increase in wages at all. Imagine that ? 1% is an insult.

Urmstongran

Didn’t NHS workers get a 3% rise the one before this one? I remember reading about it in the papers.

Oh come on, surely not even the most hardened Tory voter could say that nurses for example are adequately paid

Absolutely agree with you seamstress.
I’m equally angry at the continued lack of progress in the social care - health care issues. I started work in social care in 1978, it was an issue needing resolution then. It’s become a bigger concern with every passing year.
Public services are not valued by this government

Didn’t NHS workers get a 3% rise the one before this one? I remember reading about it in the papers.