Health Secretary Steve Barclay hints at revised offer to unions
Health Secretary Steve Barclay has suggested health workers could get a bigger pay rise in April - if they agree to "efficiencies" in the NHS.
It comes a day after health leaders held talks with the government about tackling the challenges faced by the NHS - which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described as "highly valuable". NHS staff in England and Wales - including nurses - have been given an average pay rise of 4.75% this year but are calling for an increase to keep up with inflation, which is currently running at more than 10%.
He described a recent visit to one of the 42 new NHS system control centres that use live hospital data and digital notifications to ensure the typical time a bed remains empty is being cut from three hours to one hour.
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