Thousands of foreign nurses are abandoning Britain to find work abroad
‘It’s no joke that nurse pay in the UK is joint bottom of 35 OECD countries.’
‘It’s no joke that nurse pay in the UK is joint bottom of 35 OECD countries.’
The Welsh government says it will continue to press the UK government for the necessary funding to ensure “full and fair pay rises for public sector workers.”
Further strike dates annouced to coincide with Tory Party conference
‘Our demands include safe staffing and fair pay for NHS workers, an end to outsourcing as divisive and wasteful, and an immediate injection of capital funding to help start repairing the damage of 13 years of Conservative neglect.’
As NHS trusts continue to face funding cuts, and junior doctors strike over an ongoing dispute over pay, a petition calling on Rishi Sunak to end health service spending cuts is gathering momentum.
‘I was earning more than that for part time work, 15 years ago! The wages are appalling. I had no idea.’
‘A government that has presided over 13 years of failure in our public services is now seeking to scapegoat the NHS staff and ambulance workers who do so much to care for the people of our country.’
LFF speaks to healthcare assistant Shane Longton (pictured holding the word ‘You’) – whose petition has caught the public mood.
The NHS-owned company says it ‘can operate more competitively against private companies’. Workers appear to be paying the price.
Average NHS workers have had a 10 per cent real terms pay cut since this government came to power in 2010.