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11th Mar 2021jules44 commented on:
Should NHS nurses get more than a 1% pay rise?I feel really sad that people are happy to appreciate what nurses do but when it comes to money nurses lose public support. The pay rise of 12% in the last 3 years that is banded around in the press is simply not true except for a small number of staff, the rest received 2% each year, prior to that there were 7 years of pay freezes and 1% pay cap, an average nurses pay in real terms is about £7000 per year less than if they had been in line with inflation. The increase in nurses that the government is bragging about is people coming out of retirement to help out and will leave again. As a country we should hang our heads in shame at this treatment of the NHS over the last 10 years. And this is a slap in the face in a long line of them