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• UK nurses’ pay rise demand ‘remarkably high’, says minister as strike looms

  10-11-2022 11:04
  Chris Heaton-Harris refuses to say if nurses should be paid same as politicians, amid RCN warning NHS services are unsafeUK politics live – latest news updatesThe 17.6% pay rise understood to be demanded by nurses who have voted to strike has been described as “remarkably high” by a cabinet minister, who said the expected action this winter would “completely disrupt” the NHS.Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, said it was “difficult to judge&r
  
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• UK nurses’ pay rise demand ‘remarkably high’, says minister amid looming strike

  10-11-2022 11:04
  Chris Heaton-Harris refuses to say if nurses should be paid same as politicians, amid RCN warning NHS services are unsafeUK politics live – latest news updatesThe 17.6% pay rise understood to be demanded by nurses who have voted to strike has been described as “remarkably high” by a cabinet minister, who admitted the expected action this winter would “completely disrupt” the NHS.Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, said it was “difficult to jud
  
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• Nurses among rising numbers of workers using food banks, research shows

  10-11-2022 07:00
  Trussell Trust figures reveal one in five referrals to its centres were from households where someone workedNurses, shop assistants and youth workers are among large numbers of people in low-paid jobs forced for the first time to accept charity food parcels to stay afloat as the cost of living crisis transforms the profile of the typical UK food bank user.Research by the Trussell Trust, Britain’s largest food bank network, found one in in five people referred to its 1,300 food bank centres
  
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