To think that if NHS staff get a 1% pay rise that is nothing but an insult?

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Given the joke of a pay rise given over the last 3 years, well below inflation in real terms anyway but where the Government also out and out lied by failing to mention that you'd drop an increment step to get your pay rise and now this after all the NHS have done in the last year!!! A decade capped at 1% before the 3 year review and now they want to send us right back to 1%
Absolutely disgusted!

YANBU at all.

It's really awful

So is the pay freeze for other public sector workers who've put themselves at risk keeping services running throughout the pandemic.

Well we did get claps and a crap badge.

So yes it is another fucking insult. Cheers.

It’s disgusting.

agreed, it's totally shit.

It's truly awful. Typical Tory tactics.

Unfortunately, they'll soon be posts saying nhs staff are lucky to have a job/have not worked as hard as others/it's a vocation/they know someone who wfh/ nhs staff don't care and are generally shit/had a 300% pay rise last year.

It's a bit daily bile on here sometimes.

@lookdeepintotheparka

It's really awful

So is the pay freeze for other public sector workers who've put themselves at risk keeping services running throughout the pandemic.

Yep I'm just as disgusted at the public sector pay freeze. We didn't all WFH.

It’s disgraceful. NHS staff should be being rewarded. I’m sorry for you all and would just say to people -Stop Voting For Tories!

All average middle of the road (by which I mean not management) jobs in the public sector are underpaid and undervalued.

People are outraged yet don't want to pay more tax . If it's any conslation only ! in my friendships circle is getting a pay rise ons taken a whopping 15% cut and others in care nothing .

NHS staff are on their knees and this is the thanks they get. I'm not NHS but feel awful for them. If not now then when? When will they get some thanks - no not a bloody clap - if not now?

It's an insult.

Claps and badges, what a joke.

It is not much reward for the huge amount of work NHS staff have done over the past year. I am sure many are burnt out. Problem is the country is broke now. Sunak has spent so much money this last year that we are in such debt I don't think anyone will get much of a pay rise this year or next.

I’d happily pay more tax. I’d like there to be a wealth tax first though.
And before anyone taxes ordinary people further I’d like to know where the £22 billion for Track and Track ended up. Or why the hell the taxpayer is footing a settlement occasioned by Priti Patel’s behaviour to the tune of £350000. Once they stop wasting money left, right and centre, yes I’ll pay more tax for the NHS (though do notice that the fabled £350 million a week does not seem to have gone their way).

Would any of you want to pay higher taxes so that NHS staff can get a decent pay rise? I’d be happy to myself, but many don’t seem to want to pay more. There isn’t the money currently, our country is in so much debt.

@Racoonworld

Would any of you want to pay higher taxes so that NHS staff can get a decent pay rise? I’d be happy to myself, but many don’t seem to want to pay more. There isn’t the money currently, our country is in so much debt.

There could be the money if they closed the tax loopholes or stopped channelling money to their mates. These are deliberate choices.

An insult and short sighted given the level of vacancies even before Covid. Would I be prepared to pay more tax for services run by professionals not demoralised- yes. Services might or might not get better but they would stabilise. The chancellor was stupid to rule out various tax rises. Howev

The problem is there's simply no money. That was always going to happen after 3 lockdowns and having whole swaths of the economy and society closed for a year.

The government is funded by people working and paying taxes. That is what funds hospitals and nurses.

I think a lot of people who seem to think lockdowns are cost free are going to be in for a shock over the next few years.

This is just the beginning of the long-term consequences.

@SmallYappyTypeDog

Well we did get claps and a crap badge.

So yes it is another fucking insult. Cheers.

I didn’t get a crap badge, just the clap

I knew it would be a shit offer. Years of bugger all then the pay deal over 3 years which yes did help them on bottom of paybands but made very little difference to us a top of our payband.

I found old pay slips of mine over past 10 years and hardly any difference at all in each salary.

Many will leave they and there will be an even bigger deficit in nursing/midwifery. They are doing nothing to encourage people to join the NHS.

Did not expect anything less than this from the Tories though.

If you want a decent NHS please let that be reflected in the next GE in not voting for Tories.

It's disgusting. DP is nhs frontline. Works incredibly hard, earns a terrible wage to show for it and already pays way too much tax. The thought of him paying yet more boils my blood, it really does. Unfair doesn't even begin to describe it.

Yet another pay decrease YANBU. This is why l left the NHS, l got bored of being treated like a dickhead. I haven’t looked back

And yes 1% is an insult.

it's 1% more than many other people will get

it's a shame those nhs staff who have gone above and beyond in the pandemic can't be better rewarded, but it would be absurd to extend that to every single person in the NHS plenty of whom will have seen the work stay the same or be reduced. and how on earth would they fund more generous rises when the country is going into massive debt keeping the furloughed population on partial pay plus all the other costs of the pandemic

A one off cash bonus of say £2000 would have been nice as a minimum, plus some extra time off (although that might be tricky to manage). Plus a pay rise in line with inflation every year.