NursingNotes
  • login
  • signup
  • Latest News
  • Clinical Updates
  • Professional
  • Education
  • Opinion
No Result
View All Result
NursingNotes
No Result
View All Result

Home > News > Workforce

MPs to debate a pay rise for health and care workers

The debate will be the first petition in front of a parliamentary committee since March.


24 June 2020
Westminster

Pixabay

A massive 77% of the public support a pay rise for nurses.

Tomorrow MPs will debate a set of petitions upon the government to increase pay for NHS workers and recognise them for their efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.



One petition titled ‘Increase pay for NHS healthcare workers and recognise their work’ received more than 160,000 signatures meaning it is above the threshold required for debate by Parliament.

A previous response by the government admits that while “NHS staff are our greatest asset” pay award recommendations are made by The NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB) rather than MPs.

According to a recent YouGov survey, a massive 77% of the public support a pay rise for nurses.

Three other petitions will also be debated including one that calls for the controversial immigration health surcharge to be scrapped for health workers and another that would grant citizenship to non-British health and social care workers who assisted during the COVID-19 pandemic.


The debate will be the first petition in front of a parliamentary committee since March due to COVID-19.

Grass-roots activist group Nurses United UK is calling for a 10% pay rise for all health and social care staff, bringing for the first time in over ten years an over-inflation rise.

Ahead of the debate, Nurses United UK is encouraging healthcare workers to write to their MP urging them to attend tomorrow’s session.

Anthony Johnson, a Registered Nurse and Lead Organiser said; “We can all see how important our frontline nurses have been and how much the public really cares for our carers. For too long though the politicians in Westminster have thought they could get by using and abusing the goodwill of NHS staff.


“Nurses United are here to say no more and to be the place where we get things done!”

You’ll be able to watch online on the UK Parliament YouTube channel.



Popular

Patient face mask in GP

GP practices can now deregister patients for ‘unrealistic service demands’

2 June 2022

student nurse staff nurse

Student nurses ‘used and abused’ on placements

13 June 2022

RCN

Nursing staff demand immediate review of ‘not fit for purpose’ Agenda for Change pay and conditions

8 June 2022

Insight

Busy A&E waiting room

‘The NHS is having its worst winter ever – and the reasons run much deeper than COVID’

28 January 2022

Hospital curtain intensive care

‘During the Downing Street Christmas Party we were caring for dying patients and forbidden from seeing family’

8 December 2021

Vaccine inPPE

‘Making vaccination compulsory for NHS frontline workers likely to make patients suffer’

19 November 2021


Related Posts

Close-up the positive young nurse who is dialing medicine into the syringe indoors
Clinical

Hospitals reintroduce compulsory mask wearing for staff and patients

29 June 2022
Shutterstock
Workforce

NHS workers in Scotland told to reject 5% pay offer

28 June 2022
Healthcare workers in PPE
Workforce

NHS staff on track to suffer a further 7% real-terms pay cut

25 June 2022
NursingNotes

© 2019 NursingNotes.co.uk

Navigate Site

  • Who are we?
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Agenda for Change Pay Scales

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Latest News
  • Clinical
  • Education
  • Health Politics
  • Opinion
  • Resources

© 2019 NursingNotes.co.uk