>Almost 170,000 staff – including midwives, paramedics, allied health professionals and porters – would get the pay increase for 2024-25, backdated to April.
>The proposed deal is expected to cost £448m and is in line with an offer made to NHS workers in England.
>The Scottish government said the offer, if accepted by unions, would ensure they have the best NHS pay package in the UK.
>Doctors are not included in the deal becuase they negotiate their pay separately.
That’ll account for some recent announcements, and I imagine they hope recent announcements are read by the unions as saying that this is as good an offer they can make.
Wonderful. This is why we need the SNP in government.
They deserve a pay rise, they do a lot of work!
I often wonder if people won’t be happy until the NHS represents 100% of government spending
Just to offer some perspective. Most nurses are band 5.
I’m not a union member, but as someone who will receive this increase I think I’m fairly pleased. For my own sector at least pay (and very important, pension and secondary conditions!) in the NHS now exceed comparable roles in Universities and local councils considerably.
I think there is a sense of understanding that government funding is under pressure considering the decade of austerity, but it would be good to see wages to continue to rise above inflation for at least the coming decade to return to some sort of parity compared to the 2000s.
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>Almost 170,000 staff – including midwives, paramedics, allied health professionals and porters – would get the pay increase for 2024-25, backdated to April.
>The proposed deal is expected to cost £448m and is in line with an offer made to NHS workers in England.
>The Scottish government said the offer, if accepted by unions, would ensure they have the best NHS pay package in the UK.
>Doctors are not included in the deal becuase they negotiate their pay separately.
That’ll account for some recent announcements, and I imagine they hope recent announcements are read by the unions as saying that this is as good an offer they can make.
Wonderful. This is why we need the SNP in government.
They deserve a pay rise, they do a lot of work!
I often wonder if people won’t be happy until the NHS represents 100% of government spending
Still wouldn’t be enough I bet
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Just to offer some perspective. Most nurses are band 5.
I’m not a union member, but as someone who will receive this increase I think I’m fairly pleased. For my own sector at least pay (and very important, pension and secondary conditions!) in the NHS now exceed comparable roles in Universities and local councils considerably.
I think there is a sense of understanding that government funding is under pressure considering the decade of austerity, but it would be good to see wages to continue to rise above inflation for at least the coming decade to return to some sort of parity compared to the 2000s.