How do you feel about the proposed 1% rise?Fri 5 Mar 2021 09.34 GMTThe Department of Health and Social Care has submitted its proposal of afor NHS staff to its pay review body. The rise would apply to all staff apart from GPs, junior doctors and dentists.
I’d happily pay more tax if it went straight to NHS and not into the friends and colleagues fund that this parliament has created.
I think this sums up exactly how much the government really care about the NHS and Covid.. not much!
Guardian staff, what would your thoughts be if you received a 1% raise?
They hate Nurses. Why? Because they can, because they think the caring profession won't let the unions nail them. I cannot wait to leave.
Absolutely disgusting. But not unexpected with this bunch of bandits. Every they do with the nhs is designed to make it easier for it to be moved to the private sector.
RPI is 1.4% and rising so after all the clapping and praise let's give them a pay cut. Just so glad that they gave Dom £45k rise before the public finances became so bad! disgracefultories
It is a disgrace. The MPs gave themselves a bigger wage rise and they do f—k all. The NHS have saved countless lives during this pandemic including Boris Johnson’s.
Like everyone else who's been offered a rise, they'll moan about it, then carry on as normal.
It's consistent with the way the Tories have behaved for the past 11 years. I'm inured to it.
Shite, they should have had a special reward year pay rise however id snap the hand off a 1% rise right now working in the private sector
all the carers in England are still waiting on the £500 bonus they were promised, and they work as long as as hard as nurses.
Another pay cut. Thanks.
ldrscke Total disgrace
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The Tories and their friends are lining their pockets hand over fist taking advantage of the pandemic. Meanwhile, they stab nurses in the back by offering what is in real terms a pay cut for the sacrifices and dedication they have shown during what has been a traumatic time.
The NHS has done a wonderful job. But we don't have a bottomless bucket of money. Many people have lost jobs,businesses and much else. The government has spent trillions on sustaining the economy. 1% is better than nothing as many have got.. These are not normal times. Get real
Good. Cause the caters need the rises not nhs staff which starting price of 11 14 hr is well above min wage with out bonuses. Matrons earn 43k 48k before overtime bonuses. Go to nhs England pay structure
Annoyed but resigned to it as the lack of value placed on my profession is long standing. We always step up to the mark when needed such as with Covid but as soon as it calms down a bit nobody cares 🙁
They are lucky to get a pay rise. Let’s not forget that it was a common effort the COVID crisis. We stay in lockdown for months so that the NHS didn’t get overwhelmed. The teachers don’t get any for instance.
Considering inflation will be 1.5%+, a pay 'rise' of 1% will end up with nurses being worse off nhspayrise
disgusting.
34 years NHS service, frontline throughout the first wave, watched pay decline year on year during Tory govts.... this has made me plan my escape
socialists idolize public sector workers , it is their dream for everyone to be one , they want to do away with private enterprise and everyone to work for the communist state . you never hear a socialist ask for the private sector minimum wage to be increased
Not just NHS Nurses. I'm a LA Nurse. As usual, Nurses are seen as a profession to be lauded one minute then dismissed the next. Government seem to see us a powerless body and exploit our desire to care.
A 1% pay increase amounts to a pay cut after inflation. Would have thought front line staff would be rewarded after dealing with the Covid-19 situation
Be interesting to know how much unpaid overtime has been volunteered by NHS staff. I'm pretty sure they are giving us much, much more than 1%. They deserve very substantial pay rises for risking their lives and the lives of their families during this ongoing pandemic.
I'd have it
I thought that the Tories were all for free markets. So, how does that fit with awarding a 1% pay increase to a professions that are massively under staffed? If we want to attract quality medical staff in large numbers, surely the financial rewards have to be attractive.
NHS staff have had their quietest year, they've been cancelling everyone's appointments, even cancer patients. They get pay rises periodically, meanwhile supermarket workers have been working their asses off getting abused by shoppers for the past year, what do they get? Nothing!
It is quite literally an outrage
Disappointed 😔...... at least we clapped
Aye, aye, aye (shakes head with eyes lowered to floor) Maybe there should be a clap for NHS Heroes on Thursdays at 8pm across the nation to support a 10% payrise for all NHS frontline staff & 1% payrise for all politicians.See how they like those apples🙂👏👏👏
As a retired nurse in Canada... I think this offer is an embarrassment.
In real terms its a pay cut. That's how empty the Tories clappign for our NHS really was. We're led by liars and lawbreakers in 10DowningStreet
What a joke! One of the hardest job's out there physically and mentally
Prior to the pandemic we were short of 40,000 nurses. Including many we lost due to Brexit. 1% of £24k a year doesn't seem much to me for what the NHS nurses do. 1% of what they are paying to the bullied to protect Patel would be a nice little earner though...
Disgusting. It’s another form of Tory austerity placed upon public workers.
Seems like it’s never a good time to pay nurses what they’re worth.
The worst insult by the government. The nursing staff of the NHS are its backbone. Without them the NHS would collapse. They deserved to be treated better. The nurses have sorted out the mess made by this government in terms of Covid19UK.
Just compare it with local rent/mortgages, cost of food, electric gas, travel costs. It is pretty clear that the salary is not enough. It forces workers to claim welfare to top up.when in fact it should be paid for decently by the companies not tax payers.
Not enough considering the risk they in now.... The covid-19 pandemic
Apparently it's not a pay rise tho. Gov upped tax while freezing something else. On the quiet, obviously. Essentially the 1% pay rise is taken back in tax anyway. No pay rise but gov make themselves look like heroes
Tragedy
A slap in the face for them for all the very hard work they have done for us all during this pandemic
Rishinomics...Just move the decimal point and there you have it...£350million equals £3.50
A shame the treasury gets in first, then it's all about budgets and affordability. We need to hear the whole debate at once, not watch the professions have to fight a rearguard action in the media. A savvy gov't would have preempted the issue with an advance plan for NHS rewards
For the hard work they do, the nurses deserve better pay.
As an NHS nurse I think it's a scandal. A 1% pay rise is a complete insult to myself & my colleagues given the amount of time & effort we have devoted to our TikTok vidoes so we can entertain the ungrateful tax payers. 🤬
We some say they have a job it was others who decided not to go into the public sector mainly for the pay being low and for what they do still is, so stop moaning about the private sector yes all fine when you are earning high wages it was your choice to get that job.
Yes, what are your views on the UK being £2trn is debt the highest since 1960, job losses across the UK, business owners who have lost companies, no other public service sector getting a rise, Govt extending furlough for millions of people to help protect them..
Living through a once in a life time medical crisis those unfortunate to have seen friends and family suffer will have been treated and in some instances saved by NHS staff risking their own life. It will be very sad if our great nation doesn’t stand with our NHS on this
I'm no mathematician but Dido's eventual T&T £37 Billion (9 zeros) divided by 700,000 nursing staff seems to break down to £52,857 p.a. per nurse, which would seem a fair swap. When do we wake up? NursesPay NHSPay Nursing
How much is the inflation? How much has the £ devaluated because of Brexit, making holidays in Europe more expensive. How much do you have to pay for renting a house. Had it gone up or down? And what about the prices for public transport. But the UK masochists like to be punished
At least they get a pay rise...The thousands of privately employed logistical and service personnel who prop up basically everthing in modern society get no praise and no pay rise. Stop moaning and do the job you are paid for.
We can’t just pretend we’re not bankrupt. Millions aren’t getting what they deserve.
In fairness, that pay rise has to go to those 50,000 extra nurses that the government has promised us...
Unprintable, but I’m also getting sick of being trolled on Twitter with comments like: “you’ve got a job”, “you’ve got time to make tictok videos it can’t be that hard”, etc., theRCN nurses_united NurseSayNO FabianLeedsNE Keir_Starmer NHSMillion
My thoughts are that with inflation at 1.5% (expected) this year a 1% pay rise is a pay cut.
1% you think that's okay £1.50 a week to the average pay For the people that put their lives on the line While you're mates got rich from a Covid goldmine Millions spent on a Can't Track Don't Trace A national sham and a Tory disgrace ToryCorruption ToryHypocrisy
I think the Country needs to recover, and 700 thousand people need to find jobs again, so business need to be able to open up and create them. Priority, Country, Buisnesses ,jobs. GDP, repayment of loans, Pay increases.
Perhaps if they felt valued and supported in their toles then the argument wouldn't just come down to money.
Any pay rise below the inflation rate is simply less pay. It's as simple as that.
😂🤣😂 it's like asking what do you think of banging your head against a wall? Not one nurse is going to say, I'm fine with that.
It's about a tenth of what they should receive.
It's taking the piss
Let’s clap instead.
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