NHS workers across England are set to receive a five per cent pay rise and cash top-up for last year, as ministers and unions finally agree a new pay deal in the long-running dispute between public sector workers and the Government.
The majority of unions holding staff for the Agenda for Change contract - which includes all NHS workers bar doctors, dentists and senior managers - voted in favour of the offer, which hopes to bring an end to further strikes.
Some fourteen unions representing staff on the contract have balloted hundreds of thousands of their members across the last few weeks, with the likes of Unison, GMB, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and the Royal College of Midwives among those voting to accept the offer.
