In Day 4 of their Junior Doctor strike an NHS England nurse strike looms – How Scottish Government enabled higher pay deal for already better-paid Scottish nurses to once more prevent the loss of tens of thousands of appointments and to save thousands of lives

Professor John Robertson OBA

Headlining on BBC Breakfast this morning and on their website, the above, and this:

Nurses are expected to reject their pay award in England this week, raising the possibility of strikes later in the year, the BBC understands.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has been holding a consultative vote on their 3.6% pay rise, previously describing it as “grotesque” to award nurses a lower increase than doctors, teachers, prison officers and the armed forces.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ge4905eq7o

The Scottish Government has already agreed a 4.25% deal for this year, for nurses and midwives. 

https://www.gov.scot/publications/nhs-staff-pay/

Scotland’s media will no doubt portray this as a similar offer, only 0.65% higher, to conceal the fact that it is 5.4% higher than 3.25% and that 4.25% of the average nurse pay of £40 497, in Scotland, is £1 721pa. The average salary for a nurse in Scotland is already £2 554 higher. 

https://uk.indeed.com/career/nurse/salaries/Scotland

What is NHS England risking here?

After more than 50 days of strikes and more than a million appointments cancelled NHS England’s waiting list swells to proportionally TWICE that in Scotland
Even the BBC cannot stomach Sir Keir’s claim to have met his measly target of only 2.4% more NHS appointments than in a period hit by 23 days of strikes – it looks more like a decrease in the light of those

What have NHS Scotland and SNP health secretaries avoided?

52 days of doctors strikes averted, more than 100 000 appointments and 5 000 lives saved by Humza Yousaf but his removal is what Labour desire most

2 thoughts on “In Day 4 of their Junior Doctor strike an NHS England nurse strike looms – How Scottish Government enabled higher pay deal for already better-paid Scottish nurses to once more prevent the loss of tens of thousands of appointments and to save thousands of lives”

  1. Firstly I am surprised that this is indeed ‘headline’ news after the ‘glorious football victory’ to once again distract the public from the many other calamaties that this Labour Government has and apparently still is inflicting on the general population.

    Robbo

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  2. Expect the propaganda MSM to go in to overdrive to find something with which to batter the Scottish Government in order to distract from the better Scottish pay negotiations for the NHS .

    We will soon see wee Gilhane , front and centre , in his NHS scrubs , bemoaning …something …then Damn Jackie will be wheeled on to talk more sh*te !

    This is the dishonest world we are subjected to while part of this ”voluntary” union !

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