The question for the Government is simple: who do they want to prioritise, nurses or landlords? ✒️ FisherAndrew79 for ipaperviews
With NHS waiting lists for treatment the longest on record, and wait times at A&E some of the longest on record, NHS patients need nurses to get a substantial pay rise too. That’s the only way to recruit and retain nurses at a time when more nurses are leaving the profession than ever before.
With CPI inflation this year of 10.1 per cent and RPI inflation standing at 12 per cent, the Government has offered NHS staff, including nurses, an average of 4.75 per cent. Meanwhile, more than a quarter of NHS trusts in England now operateThe cost of meeting the RCN demand for RPI inflation plus 5 per cent for the NHS’s 300,000 nurses would be around £1.6bn.
The Labour leadership in Westminster now has to decide where it stands on increasing nurses’ pay. Andy Burnham, Labour’s Greater Manchester Mayor and a former Secretary of State for Health, had no such hesitation when the news broke of the RCN’s positive ballot result.Many patients will feel similar solidarity with the people who have helped them through severe illness or injury, the birth of their children, death of a loved one, mental illness, addiction and other significant life events.
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