Thousands sign petition urging government for an inflation-matching pay rise
A petition to the health secretary Steve Barclay to increase pay for NHS workers by 11 percent to match inflation, has amassed more than 80,000 signatures.
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Hundreds of thousands of NHS workers to ballot on strike action over pay
Around 350,000 members of Unison started voting this week on whether to strike over real terms pay cuts.
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Message for the Chancellor: Public health is an economic issue
‘What the government is resolutely refusing to acknowledge, let alone address, is the crisis of people who aren’t working not because they don’t have to financially, not because they’re choosing a life of leisure, but simply because they can’t, due to ill health’
Thérèse Coffey ridiculed for policing health workers’ grammar while the NHS is in crisis
The new health secretary issued guidance instructing workers to not use the Oxford comma
Truss and Sunak under fire for NHS crisis ‘complacency’
The Tory leadership contenders have been accused of being ‘worryingly bare’ on health policy ideas to solve the crisis the NHS is currently grappling with.
Liz Truss argued for cutting doctors’ pay and charging patients to see GPs, unearthed report shows
The report, entitled ‘Back to Black’, which was uncovered by TalkTV, also proposed cuts to the pensions, education and communities budgets as part of push to shrink the size of the state under the then Labour government.
Government urged to take bolder action to address rising health inequality
As Rishi Sunak plans to charge NHS patients £10 for ‘no shows’, reports show growing disparity in access to healthcare and rising health inequality across the UK.
Rishi Sunak’s plan to fine patients £10 for missing appointments is condemned by NHS leaders
“Charging patients for missed appointments would not only undermine the essential trust between doctor and patient, but ultimately threaten the fundamental principle that the NHS delivers free care at the point of need, for all.”