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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Katrine Bussey

Record-breaking 5% pay rise for NHS Scotland staff ‘won’t cut it’, union claims

Union leaders have insisted a record-breaking 5% pay rise that is being offered to more than 160,000 NHS workers across is “simply not good enough”.

Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said the proposed wages hike – which could amount to £2,400 a year for some frontline employees – was a “demonstration of how much we value our NHS staff who have worked tirelessly to keep us safe during the course of the pandemic”.

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