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...When the idea of scrapping the cap was mooted in June last year, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the Conservatives’ plan amounted to “pay rises for bankers, pay cuts for district nurses”....
...Nurses, ambulance crews, physiotherapists and other non-medical NHS staff are beginning to vote in trade union ballots on the government’s pay offer, made last month....
...Teachers and nurses are among staff who plan to walk out. Heaton-Harris has refused to release the £600mn from a £3.3bn package for the region unveiled before Christmas....
...George Parker Just one other observation, William....
...“Lots of people work hard — doctors, nurses, teachers and so on. So yes, I do feel uncomfortable. Or I did. I don’t feel uncomfortable now because I’m giving it all away.”...
...One minister admitted that this was now the essence of Sunak’s strategy, citing poet Hilaire Belloc’s lines: “Always keep a-hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse.”...
...Convicted child killer Lucy Letby will die in prison, a judge ruled on Monday, as the UK government came under mounting pressure to beef up the independent inquiry into how the former nurse went undetected...
...More than 1mn appointments and procedures have been cancelled since nurses kicked off a wave of industrial action in the NHS last December....
...Sir Paul Nurse, director of the Francis Crick Institute, who led an independent review of science and innovation for the UK government which urged rejoining Horizon, said any deal would be celebrated by...
...The chancellor has warned that he will not borrow more money to fund pay rises for police officers, teachers, nurses and other public sector workers, arguing it would fuel consumer price inflation, currently...
...How many of us would be content to nurse a thimble of 15 per cent abv Argentinian merlot, I wonder, if we were down the pub or at a party?...
...More than 1mn NHS staff, including nurses and ambulance crews, have already been offered a 5 per cent wage increase by the government for 2023-24, along with a one-off payment for last year....
...NHS staff, including nurses and ambulance crews, have already been offered a 5 per cent wage increase for 2023-24, along with a one-off payment for last year....
...Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse, head of the Francis Crick Institute in London, urged the politicians to stop quibbling over relatively small sums of money and get a deal done....
...Sunak’s rejection of a “massive” pay rise for nurses leaves room for manoeuvre and Steve Barclay, health secretary, has suggested making nurses a one-off payment or backdating a more generous pay rise —...
...Nursing workforce under strain by expensive childcare | High childcare costs are forcing parents who want to become nurses in England to quit their training or reject joining the profession, at a time when...
...But according to YouGov polling, the public continue to support striking nurses. The research firm’s most recent survey showed that 67 per cent of people backed the strikes....
...health secretary, has promised the “biggest expansion of NHS staff in history” to tackle a shortfall in the service — doubling the number of places for would-be doctors to 15,000 and training 10,000 new nurses...
...The offer would give nurses, ambulance staff and other NHS workers in England a new, non-consolidated payment worth 2 per cent of their wages in 2022-23, with an additional bonus of at least £1,250, depending...
...“I needed to come out of this meeting with something serious to show nurses why they should not strike this week,” she said. “Regrettably, they are not getting an extra penny.”...
...Rishi Sunak had hoped the government’s improved pay offer to nurses, accepted by union leaders and now subject to a national ballot, would pave the way for an end to strikes elsewhere in the public sector...
...As many as 100,000 nurses will walk out....
...“The secretary of state [for health] and the PM have been clear that that would be extremely difficult to do because it wouldn’t just be for nurses . . ....
...Health unions said strikes by ambulance staff and nurses would go ahead this month as planned, with the former group walking out on Wednesday, but officials on both sides said a meeting with health secretary...
...Nurses are due to walk out again on Wednesday and Thursday....
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