NHS staff in England have been offered a five per cent pay rise from April as the government and union officials have completed negotiations and come to a final offer. The deal will affect more than one million NHS staff, including nurses and ambulance workers.
The government and the NHS Staff Council – representing nurses, ambulance staff and other NHS workers – have completed negotiations and reached a final offer, a government spokesman has said. Further strikes by ambulance staff and other NHS workers have been called off and unions will recommend acceptance of a new pay offer to NHS workers, they have announced.
Staff have also been offered a one-off payment of at least £1,655 to top up the past year's pay award. The offer covers all NHS staff except doctors who are on a different contract, raising hopes that there has been a promising breakthrough in the long-burning issue of pay for hundreds of thousands of workers.
