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Nurse starting salaries over £8k lower after 'decade of pay cuts'

By Liz Wells 14 July 2025

Starting salaries for nurses are now more than £8,000 lower than if wages had kept up with inflation since 2010, new analysis reveals.

WORKFORCE

NHS trust criticised for cutting holiday pay

By Liz Wells 23 April 2025

The South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (STHFT) has been criticised by RCN Northern region for its plans to cut holiday pay and increase costs for its staff.

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS

Liverpool trust ordered to pay nurse over £200k for failing to implement timely reasonable adjustments

By Liz Wells 23 April 2025

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust has been ordered to pay more than £200,000 to a community nurse after an employment tribunal found it failed to implement timely reasonable adjustments.

PAY

Delays to health workers' pay rise 'causing huge problems' for NHS

By Liz Wells 01 April 2025

Trade unions and organisations representing health workers have hit out after the government failed to deliver this year’s pay award on time.

PAY NEGOTIATIONS

Ditch 'unfit for purpose pay body', say unions

By Liz Wells 26 November 2024

The government must bypass the independent panel that reviews NHS pay if the health service is to be fit for the future, say three of the UK’s largest health unions.

LONG COVID

Nursing staff and doctors with long Covid 'hung out to dry'

By Liz Wells 18 November 2024

Nursing staff and doctors with long Covid are still being denied access to vital financial support, two years after the government’s own scientific advisory body called for ministers to take action...

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