The announcement is unlikely to affect industrial action planned by health workers this winter, as NHS colleagues in Great Britain voted to strike having already received the 2022/23 uplifts
Health workers in Northern Ireland are to finally receive a pay rise recommended by independent salary review bodies, Stormont's Department of Health has announced.
The majority of health workers will receive at least an additional £1,400 in pay while doctors and dentists will be given a 4.5% salary rise.The uplifts are set to come into effect before the end of the financial year and will be backdated to April 1 this year. Former health minister Robin Swann had recommended accepting the recommendations of the pay review body but at the time was unable to implement it in the absence of an executive budget.
The department said pay awards had to be "affordable" in the context of each department's allocation under the budget set out by Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris.With recommendations of the pay review bodies already received, and the previous minister having accepted them, the Department of Health was in a position to act almost immediately after it was given the authority.
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