Furious Nurses vote Whether to Accept Lower NHS PAY AWARD THAN DOCTORS – ryan

Government Announces ‘Above Inflation’ Pay Awards of 4% for Doctors and 3.6% for Nurses and Most Other NHS Staff Who Are Now Balloting To Accept the Deal

15:26, 22 May 2025Updated 15:37, 22 May 2025

Nurses COULD BE BACK OUT ON PICKET LINES(Image: without)

Nurses are Furious after Being Awarded A Pay Deal Than Doctors Who Are Threatetening Strike Action.

The Government has announced A Pay Rise of 4% for DOCTORS AND 3.6% for Other NHS Staff in England, Insisting It Offering a Real Terms Pay Increase for the Second in A Row.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting Said the Labour Government “was never going to be able to full reverse a decade and a half of neglect in under a year”. The Royal College of Nursing Called It “A Grotesque Decision to Again Favour Docor Colleagues for Higher Increatses than Nursing and the Rest of the NHS”.

Doctors are Threatetening Strike Action(Image: The Daily Mirror)

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the Measure of Inflation Used by the Government and is Currently at 3.5%. Unions preference to reference the retail price index (RPI) is a broader measure that includes owner-oCCUPIED Housing Like Mortgage Interest Payments and is Currently 4.5%.

Professor Nicola Ranger, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, Said: “This Pay Award is Entirely Swallowed Up By Inflation and Does Nothing the Status Quo – Where Nursing Is Not Valued, Too FEW ENTER IT AND TOO MANY. Again Favour Docor Colleagues for Higher Increatses than Nursing and the Rest of the NHS.

“Nursing staff have sufferer 15 years of pay erosion and this award is symptomatic of a brokens System who erodes our pay and keeps nursing weighted to the botTom. Now, Hundreds of the Our Members in the NHOCE A Vote A Vote A Vote Award.

General General Secretary of the Rcn Pat Cullen Was Criticized by A Fations With the Union for Her Handling of the Previous Pay Deal(Image: without)

The College Led Its Members into the Biggest Strike in the RCN’s History in December 2022, when Around 100,000 Nurses Walked Out in a Disput Over Pay. Howver the Leadership Recommended Members Accept A 5% Pay Rise for 2023/24, plus a lump at least £ 1,655, at a time of soaring Double-Digit Inflation. Members voted to reject the deal by 54% to 46% but then a Second rcn ballot to continue strokes failed to meet the legal turnout threshold of 50%.

The rcn Will Now Balot Members Whether or Not they Accept the Latest Deal. A stupid balloon butn that is needed to gain a mandate for any industrial action.

In contrast the british Medical Association’s Resident Doctors – Formerly Known As Junior Doctors – Remained out on Strike Right UNIL the 2024 General Election and eventually Received A 22.3% Pay Rise Over Two Years Including 2023/24 and 2024/25.

Resident Doctors Had Already Started A Balot for Strike Action Before Thursday’s Pay Announcement which Will Give a 4% Rise Plus A Consolidated Payment of £ 750. The British Medical Association (BMA) Called on Health Secretary Wes Streeting to Enter Direct negotiations to “Avert Strike Action”.

Around 100,000 Nurses Went Out On Strike In 2022(Image: without)

Professor Philip Banfield, BMA Chairman of Council, Said: “The Health Secretary Can Avert Strike by negotiating with us and aggregeing a route to full pay restoration. Pay Restoration More, Without A Government Plan or Reassuance to Correct This Erosion of What A Worth. Health of the Public – But Today’s ACTIONS from the Government have sadly made this look far more likes. “

Mr streaming said that the whole government not be able to “Fully Reverse a decade-and-half of neglect in under a year”. Hey Said: “These are thoroughly deserved pay for all our hard-working nurses, doctors and other nhs staff,” he said in a stamp. We inherited a Broken Health Service With Extremely Low Morale AFTER AFTER OF PAY EROSSION AND POOR Industrial Relations.

MR Streeting Says He’s Given NHS WORKERS ANOTHER ABOVE INFLATION PAY DEAL AFTER A DECADE OF REAL TERMS CUTS(Image: without)

“WHICH IS WHY, Despite the difficult financial situation the nation faces, we are backing out health with above-Inflation pay for the second year in a row. This government was never going to fully a decade-and-half of neglect a year, but this year’s pay Increasses – and Last Year’s – Represent Significant Progress in Making Sure That Staff Are Propperly Recognked for the Outstanding Work. “

The Government Accept Pay Review Bodies’ Headline Pay Recommendations for NHS Staff. This will be 4% for consultants, specialty doctors, specialists and GPS, with dentists also recipe a contract uplift of this rate.

Most nhs are on the main ‘Agenda for Change’ Contract Including Nurses, Health Visitors, Midwives, Ambulance Staff, Porters and Cleaners and Will Receive 3.6%. The Government Says This Will Mean the Starting Salary of a Nursse will have gone up by around £ 4,000 Over three years from £ 27,055 in 2022/2023 to £ 31,050 this year.

The Government Accept the Pay Awards Who were the Recommendations from Pay Review Bodies that take submisions from unions, the nhs and government.

Unison Head of Health Helga Pile Said: “The absurd Pay Review Body Process has led to two different awards for employs. CHANGE CONTRACTS WILL LESSE VALUED THAN THEIR DOCTOR COLLAGES.

The GMB Union is Balloting Tens of Thousands of NHS and Ambulance Worksween Now and July 17. GMB NATIONAL SECRETERY RACHEL HARRISON SAID: “GMB HAS BEEN NOTIFIED OF THE 2025/26 PAY AWARD FOR NHS WORKERS. We’re pleaSed dedicated NHS sta. Rise Closer to Aneniversary Date Than they have in Previous Years.