Unite has begun balloting its NHS members over the recent pay award from the government.
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is to consult with its members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on the 3.6% pay award.
NHS staff have been offered pay rises of between 3.6% and 4.5% for 2025-26.
Unite the union's NHS Scotland members have 'overwhelmingly' backed a two-year pay offer.
Midwives and maternity care assistants working in the NHS in Scotland have voted to accept a two-year pay offer of just over 8%.
Further cuts to staffing and services are likely if NHS organisations need to shoulder pay costs above what is included in the health service’s budget for 2025/26, says the NHS Confederation.
Healthcare assistants in the maternity and theatre departments of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust are to be moved up a salary grade and receive five years’ back pay for clinical ta...
Nurses, midwives and other healthcare staff across Scotland have been offered a pay increase of 8% over two years, Scotland's health secretary Neil Gray has announced.
Resident doctors in Northern Ireland have voted in favour of a pay offer from the Department of Health.
The threat of further strikes at hospitals in Lewisham and Greenwich has been lifted after healthcare staff secured a salary increase and a deal on back pay.
A strike by hundreds of NHS staff at hospitals in Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot has been suspended after an improved pay offer from Swansea Bay University Health Board.
Oldham, Greater Manchester£104,337 – £115,105
Bradford, West Yorkshire£96,350 – £108,925
Oldham, Greater Manchester£104,337 – £115,105
Bradford, West Yorkshire£96,350 – £108,925