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Nurses, junior doctors, paramedics, hospital porters and healthcare staff could be left without a decision for nearly seven months.
In a submission to the independent panel, the Department of Health and Social Care has recommended NHS staff, including nurses, receive a one percent pay rise next year.
Back in July, the then health secretary, Matt Hancock, aroused further disquiet by maintaining that one percent represented “what is affordable.”
Jenny McGee, one of the nurses who looked after Johnson when he was hospitalised with Covid soon after the pandemic struck in March last year, resigned in May.
She cited the 1% offer as a key factor.
“We’re not getting the respect, and now pay, that we deserve,” McGee told Channel 4.
“I’m just sick of it. So I’ve handed in my resignation.”
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) chief executive Dame Donna Kinnair called the proposed increase “pitiful”, and is calling for a 12.5 percent increase.
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Ancillary staff across Royal London Hospital, Whipps Cross and St Barts will be balloted on possible strike action next week.
This follows a challenging period for the NHS while the organisation has to deal with the pandemic, the vaccination program and a Brexit-induced lack of foreign employers.
There are tens of thousands of vacant nursing posts in the NHS and independent health and social care sectors and more are considering leaving over the pay deal, the RCN said.
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