Wages are £8,000 lower than if they had kept up with inflation in that time, according to the Royal College of Nursing.
Wages are £8,000 lower than if they had kept up with inflation in that time, according to the Royal College of Nursing. Nurses’ pay is £8,000 lower than if wages had kept up with inflation since 2010, according to new research.
The Royal College of Nursing said its analysis showed that nurses’ pay has been “severely eroded” over the past years, especially for junior staff. The report was published as tens of thousands of nursing staff vote in the RCN’s consultation on this year’s pay award, and just days after resident doctors announced they will be taking strike action later this month. The RCN said addressing “collapsing” wages for those at the start of their careers must be a priority for the Government, especially if it wants to boost recruitment into the profession and deliver its 10 Year Health Plan. Executive director for RCN England, Patricia Marquis, said: “Nursing staff are tired of playing constant financial catch-up, often struggling to pay rent or get on the housing ladder. “Nursing is an incredible profession, but we are weighted to the bottom of the NHS pay scales and received one of the lowest awards this year, a situation which is deepening the workforce crisis and impacting patient care. Attracting and keeping talented people should be the government’s priority, but that requires them to do better on nursing pay.“Ministers must realise that the only sensible choice left to them to negotiate directly with the largest health care workforce. It is time to both deliver better pay and pay modernisation for nursing staff.”Government needs to overhaul ‘unfair’ business rates, says Greene King boss‘Critical’ need to close the UK’s self-employed pensions gapFlutter takes 100% ownership of US firm FanDuel after £1.3bn dealUK exports to US returned to growth in May as trade deal cut some key tariffsParts of UK hit year’s highest temperatures before heatwave starts to coolPilots ‘waved to children before crashing into fireball’ at Southend Airport, says witness
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