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Editorial Graham Scott EDITOR
Double standard on pay dishonours profession Nurses have put up with a lot since the financial crisis of 2008. Year after year they have tolerated pay freezes or minimal increases that have had serious consequences for their standard of living. They have stoically accepted they must do their bit to help the country get back on its feet. Over the past few months there has been a growing sense that they have suffered enough. It started when the government in England decided to reject the NHS Pay Review Body’s call for all nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants to receive a 1 per cent pay award. And it grew this week because figures from the RCN show senior managers have taken pay rises while their front line staff are expected to get by on less and less.
NURSES ARE ENTITLED TO BE CYNICAL ABOUT GLIB TALK OF BEING ‘ALL IN IT TOGETHER’
The college’s figures, published as part of its What If? campaign on fair pay, show that executive directors’ pay rose by 6.1 per cent in the past two years, at a time when nurses’ salaries have gone up by 1.6 per cent. Nurses are entitled to respond cynically when ministers speak glibly about ‘us all being in it together’, whatever the protestations of the Department of Health that managers have being exercising pay (self-)restraint. In his address to the RCN’s annual congress in Liverpool this week, college general secretary Peter Carter accused the government of shameful spin for suggesting that giving nurses a 1 per cent award this year would threaten jobs. ‘If our health service is seriously under threat the solution is not to undermine the very people who keep it going,’ he said, to cheers and loud applause. At least some nurses received due recognition last week, when the Queen’s birthday honours were announced. Jessica Corner, an eminent cancer specialist and academic, richly deserves being made a Dame, while former Nursing Standard nurse of the year Johanne Tomlinson receives an OBE for her outstanding work with prisoners. Congratulations to them both and all those honoured. See news pages 9 and 12 Air your views on
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Editorial Graham Scott EDITOR
Double standard on pay dishonours profession Nurses have put up with a lot since the financial crisis of 2008. Year after year they have tolerated pay freezes or minimal increases that have had serious consequences for their standard of living. They have stoically accepted they must do their bit to help the country get back on its feet. Over the past few months there has been a growing sense that they have suffered enough. It started when the government in England decided to reject the NHS Pay Review Body’s call for all nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants to receive a 1 per cent pay award. And it grew this week because figures from the RCN show senior managers have taken pay rises while their front line staff are expected to get by on less and less.
NURSES ARE ENTITLED TO BE CYNICAL ABOUT GLIB TALK OF BEING ‘ALL IN IT TOGETHER’
The college’s figures, published as part of its What If? campaign on fair pay, show that executive directors’ pay rose by 6.1 per cent in the past two years, at a time when nurses’ salaries have gone up by 1.6 per cent. Nurses are entitled to respond cynically when ministers speak glibly about ‘us all being in it together’, whatever the protestations of the Department of Health that managers have being exercising pay (self-)restraint. In his address to the RCN’s annual congress in Liverpool this week, college general secretary Peter Carter accused the government of shameful spin for suggesting that giving nurses a 1 per cent award this year would threaten jobs. ‘If our health service is seriously under threat the solution is not to undermine the very people who keep it going,’ he said, to cheers and loud applause. At least some nurses received due recognition last week, when the Queen’s birthday honours were announced. Jessica Corner, an eminent cancer specialist and academic, richly deserves being made a Dame, while former Nursing Standard nurse of the year Johanne Tomlinson receives an OBE for her outstanding work with prisoners. Congratulations to them both and all those honoured. See news pages 9 and 12 Air your views on
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@NScomment
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