Nurses Pay Rise

[lankeela]

would you accept a tax increase to give the NHS staff a bigger pay rise? If everyone who clapped agreed they could pay them more but I wonder how many would actually agree to paying for it?

[dannyk13]

ich, I don't think that it is an insult when so many people are actually getting a pay cut.

[emmie]

nor do i. My niece is a nurse and is on a very good salary already.

[davebro]

If it's in recognition of services rendered "above and beyond" due to the virus then I would favour a one-off bonus paid to front line staff only.

No blanket on-going pay rise & the rest should be dealt with same as other public service employees.

[emmie]

but they could all say they are front line staff dave.

[dannyk13]

A good idea Dave.

[mushroom25]

// a one-off bonus paid to front line staff only. //

how would the term "front line staff" be defined? where would the "cut-off" point be? would it even be fair to draw a line below which staff were not entitled?

[emmie]

mushroom, exactly

[ichkeria]

It’s my opinion.
As for a bigger tax rise, the existing massive tax rise is big enough to afford it

[davebro]

I would say those who were dealing directly with covid cases in the wards & needing full PPE.

[emmie]

which seems to be most dave

[bhg481]

mushroom - the managerial staff, whose job it would be to allocate the bonus, would decree that they had done all the important work, so the bonus would be distributed amongst them.

[emmie]

i just don't think it would work.

[Sqad]

A one off payment for front line staff only........try to get that past the Unions........
So, what about the Armed Forces, would they get a one off payment when they entered a theatre of war?

A bad idea.

[emmie]

or the other services entering burning buildings, dealing with bomb threats, and more

[Apc2604]

No. Nothing to do with tax though. I just think it's a bad idea to give them a pay rise at all when so many others who are just as deserving won't get one. And the strike threats are making me furious.

[rowanwitch]

No and I was a nurse, I would rather the money went to reducing waiting lists, and catching up on the health care that was left behind during the pandemic. A pay rise at the cost to patient care, not why I went into it.

[teacake44]

Its really all down to priorities really, and sadly in my view no government, either side ever gets it right, and never will, they live in a different world.
But the government are not on their own, a lot of Joe public have lost any sense of priority.

To conclude, I believe the HS2 project was given the go ahead during the pandemic. A good example of very bad house keeping, or thought process, on the present problems at that time.

[calmck]

Agree Roman. I always remember Matron saying that nursing was a vocation and not a job to get rich in!

[rowanwitch]

When I left I was on just over £26,000 as a staff nurse on top of that there was unsocial hours payments for weekend and night shifts. That was a fair time back people used to say nurses were poorly paid, but per hour the junior doctors were far worse off.