The UK Government has made a new pay offer to NHS workers in England, in a deal that unions say could end strike action over the border. The new pay deal will go out to a vote of NHS union members.
The offer consists of a one off bonus this year of 2.5% for the best paid and 8.2% for the worst paid and comes on top of the 4% increase already implemented for 2022/23, the Mirror reports. Tense negotiations late into the night also resulted in an offer of a 5.2% rise for 2023/24 - an increase on the Government’s initial offer of 3.5%.
What this means for NHS workers in Wales has not yet been confirmed. The Welsh Government has consistently said there is no more money to offer NHS workers. However, it has repeatedly told unions that if the UK Government make a new pay offer to NHS England workers which comes from new money, and not from the current budget, then talks about increasing the Welsh Government pay offer would resume.
