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• All eyes on Boris: open letter to the PM on NHS pay

  29-06-2021 15:24
  
  As the NHS turns 73, it faces some of the biggest challenges of its lifetime. The courageous health workers who have worked tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic have been hailed as national heroes. But, while NHS staff in Scotland are getting their pay rise, all other health workers are still waiting.
  This birthday, Boris Johnson has the power to do something important. To give NHS staff the gift of feeling valued, to give health workers a vital morale boost, to help the NHS keep and hire
  
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• Decent pay rise vital to ensure the NHS is fighting fit post-pandemic, say unions 

  29-06-2021 14:50
  
  Health unions have written to new health secretary Sajid Javid stressing the crucial importance of pay in ensuring the NHS is ‘fighting fit’ to deal with its many post-pandemic challenges.
  The letter – signed by the heads of UNISON, the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives – is on behalf of 14 unions representing more than a million NHS staff across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
  Now the NHS pay review body report
  
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• NHS pay campaign: all eyes on the PM for June’s #2DaysFor2k

  29-06-2021 13:27
  
  With the Pay Review Body’s recommendation on NHS pay already likely to be on the Prime Minister’s desk at Number 10, the decision on what the announcement will be rests solely with him.
  From the 23-25 June, UNISON health members, branches and regions all over the country got out and about campaigning for what was likely to be the last ‘2 days for 2k’.
  Here are some of the best bits from around the UK:
  Northern Ireland
  With a 1% pay rise mooted earlier this year, Northern
  
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• New NHS flexible working rights to improve work-life balance and retain staff 

  29-06-2021 07:50
  
  An agreement on ​​new flexible working rights aimed at giving NHS staff a better work-life balance is announced today (Tuesday) by health unions and NHS employers.
  The deal will make it easier for workers to request flexible working arrangements including a right to do so from ​the first day ​staff are employed in the NHS.
  It is expected to help the NHS recruit and retain health workers. The agreement comes at a time when many health employers and ​their&n
  
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