• A pay rise for NHS staff was inevitable. The government's delay has caused irreparable damage | Polly Toynbee

    A pay rise for NHS staff was inevitable. The government's delay has caused irreparable damage | Polly Toynbee
    From longer waiting lists to discouraging nursing applicants, the costs are huge – for patients and the service itselfWhen the mighty Royal College of Nursing walked out on its first ever national strike, there was never a doubt that the government would fold and offer a pay increase to NHS staff. Nurses could never be conveniently branded as “militants”, though at first, pathetically, the Tories tried it; nor did that epithet stick to the ambulance staff, physiotherapists and

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