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Editorial Graham Scott EDITOR
Ministers need to heed nurses’ message on pay Nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants will join NHS colleagues in England in protests this week at the government’s decision not to award a cost-of-living pay rise this year. Thousands are expected to turn out at venues across the country on Thursday, when all the unions representing health service workers will join forces. It is almost three months since – for the first time in 28 years – recommendations of the NHS Pay Review Body for pay in England and Wales were rejected by government. This independent group of workforce experts and economists weighed up evidence from unions, employers and the four UK health departments before concluding that staff should receive a 1 per cent pay rise from April 1.
DO NURSES HAVE THE STOMACH FOR A FIGHT? THE ANSWER IS A RESOUNDING ‘YES’
In so doing the review body was stating that the NHS could (and should) find the money to fund it. To date, only ministers in Scotland have stumped up. Their counterparts in Northern Ireland are still making up their minds. Since March, the RCN has been consulting members on how it should respond. Do nurses have the stomach for a fight? The answer has been a resounding ‘yes’, with 95 per cent calling on the college to oppose the governments in London and Cardiff for refusing to pay up. The RCN’s next move will be to launch What If?, a campaign that will put ministers under pressure to ‘do the honourable thing’, as college general secretary Peter Carter puts it, by giving nursing staff the pay rise they deserve. ‘No one is denying that times have been tough and that difficult decisions need to be made,’ Dr Carter adds, ‘but nurses have already done their bit. ‘They have cared for record numbers of patients through the most disruptive reorganisation in the history of the NHS and in the face of huge workforce cuts. They deserve to be valued and appreciated.’ You can find out more about the What If? campaign at www.rcn.org.uk See news page 8
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Editorial Graham Scott EDITOR
Ministers need to heed nurses’ message on pay Nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants will join NHS colleagues in England in protests this week at the government’s decision not to award a cost-of-living pay rise this year. Thousands are expected to turn out at venues across the country on Thursday, when all the unions representing health service workers will join forces. It is almost three months since – for the first time in 28 years – recommendations of the NHS Pay Review Body for pay in England and Wales were rejected by government. This independent group of workforce experts and economists weighed up evidence from unions, employers and the four UK health departments before concluding that staff should receive a 1 per cent pay rise from April 1.
DO NURSES HAVE THE STOMACH FOR A FIGHT? THE ANSWER IS A RESOUNDING ‘YES’
In so doing the review body was stating that the NHS could (and should) find the money to fund it. To date, only ministers in Scotland have stumped up. Their counterparts in Northern Ireland are still making up their minds. Since March, the RCN has been consulting members on how it should respond. Do nurses have the stomach for a fight? The answer has been a resounding ‘yes’, with 95 per cent calling on the college to oppose the governments in London and Cardiff for refusing to pay up. The RCN’s next move will be to launch What If?, a campaign that will put ministers under pressure to ‘do the honourable thing’, as college general secretary Peter Carter puts it, by giving nursing staff the pay rise they deserve. ‘No one is denying that times have been tough and that difficult decisions need to be made,’ Dr Carter adds, ‘but nurses have already done their bit. ‘They have cared for record numbers of patients through the most disruptive reorganisation in the history of the NHS and in the face of huge workforce cuts. They deserve to be valued and appreciated.’ You can find out more about the What If? campaign at www.rcn.org.uk See news page 8
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