NHS 1% pay rise

[R J]

Been in the news today ,
What are people's thoughts ?

 

[robs1]

Difficult one, the nhs has done a marvellous job, but then so have many others such as care home workers etc.
They have a very secure job many have lost theirs and many more will, I expect when the review body do a recommendation it will nearer 3 % and the government will accept it

 

[Hindsight]

Difficult one, the nhs has done a marvellous job, but then so have many others such as care home workers etc.
They have a very secure job many have lost theirs and many more will, I expect when the review body do a recommendation it will nearer 3 % and the government will accept it

This afternoon as I heard this on the radio I concluded there will be a one off bonus payment and a 5% pay rise over two years! You can come back when the dust settles, the nurses ballot is in, the Daily Mail pummels Rishi and then tell me how far out I was!

 

[manhill]

Military get extra on active service and go back normal after that, why not the NHS medics?

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Tell 'em they can have a pay rise when the NHS no longer has to shell out £600 million a year to pay off those that it's damaged (or killed) through medical negligence.

 

[Bongodog]

1% is a hell of a sight better than many are getting this year. Whilst doctors and nurses in the front line on the wards have done a great job in harrowing circumstances, many in the clinics and such like have done very little. Some will have been home shielding on full pay. Also bear in mind that people paid from the public purse are rarely furloughed even if they have nothing much to do. Contrast this with the devastated retail and hospitality sectors, furloughed in full pay at best, or in the case of people without fixed hours or those who depend on lots of overtime with a huge hole in their finances.

 

[Sid]

Average nurse earns 34k a year.
1%÷52=£6.53 a week more.

But I see the BBC have sided with the nurses and taken that off the news page and put up the starting salary!

Talk is of nurses resigning.
Good luck finding another job.

Proper pay rise when things are back to "normal"

 

[Muck Spreader]

The French policy is, Nurses volunteer to work Covid wards. They can do a maximum of 6 weeks on them before having a rest, they then get bonus payments for all the weeks they do.

 

[bobk]

Covid nurses should get a bonus but where do you stop , paramedics , social care homes . etc etc

Has to be said some nurses went missing when covid struck

 

[Sid]

Covid nurses should get a bonus but where do you stop , paramedics , social care homes . etc etc

Has to be said some nurses went missing when covid struck

No doubt there were savings made by not having to pay surgeon's etc?

 

[Muck Spreader]

No doubt there were savings made by not having to pay surgeon's etc?

I don't think you will find many surgeons were furloughed.

 

[Sid]

I don't think you will find many surgeons were furloughed.

So what happened then, as operations were cancelled left right and centre

 

[caveman]

So what happened then, as operations were cancelled left right and centre

I think a lot of aneathiasists were/are on working on ventilators. Surgeons too probably.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Hard one isn’t it, can you tell me 1.7m staff were all in the ICU’s?

 

[Granite Farmer]

I've been trying to find out what the total cost of the pay rise is but cannot seem to find the figures. It will be the total cost that is problem. Ok 1% is not much on individual terms but when its added altogether.....

 

[Kildare]

1% is very little and will cost the government even less as that 1% will be taxed and then when the nurse spends the balance on petrol etc it is subject to vat.

 

[Werzle]

Very well paid Union leaders playing up more than the nhs staff as usual, how much did they waste on the billboards today driving around hospitals on lorrys?! Most nhs staff have earnt fortunes during covid because of the hours the poor sods have been working and havent been anywhere to spend it. Good to see we are cutting our aid budgets too, far too much only finds its way into the wrong hands . Lets look after ourselves.

 

[hoff135]

Im sure a few got rich out of the pandemic. Unfortunately most of us will suffer the implications of the government's helicopter money for many many years ahead

 

[Muck Spreader]

Im sure a few got rich out of the pandemic. Unfortunately most of us will suffer the implications of the government's helicopter money for many many years ahead

I think quite a few folk have got rich out of Covid, but I doubt many on the frontline have. Bozza's cronies seem to have made screwing the government into an art form, from a useless Track and Trace system, rubbish food for school children, substandard or none existent PPE and lateral flow test kits. Its just been a free-for-all raid on the treasury at the Taxpayers expense. I bet the British virgin Islands is sinking under the weight of all this new cash.

 

[Goweresque]

Average nurse earns 34k a year.
1%÷52=£6.53 a week more.

Add in the value of the index linked final salary pension scheme and a nurse gets paid a LOT more than £34K. Everyone forgets that pensions are part of your pay, just deferred until you are elderly. A staff nurse will by retirement have a nominal pension pot in excess of the pension pot cap, which is £1m. Try getting saving a pension pot of that size from your £34k salary in the private sector.