9 out of 10 nurses have rejected @wesstreeting’s pay award.

Doctors and nurses are united in the fight for fair pay.

If the Government wants to fix NHS staffing and retain the workforce, it starts with pay that reflects the value of the work we do.https://t.co/8NFB7Yi1rt

— Dr Haseena Wazir (@DrHWazir) July 31, 2025

Professor John Robertson OBA

As the nurses in the other parts of the UK vote by a margin of 91% to 9% for industrial action, a reminder of what SNP ministers have done for Scotland:

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