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Original poster

Will NHS be given a payrise this year?

31 replies

Mw19 · 23/03/2022 18:20

Realistically what payrise (if any) , do you think NHS could be awarded this year? I don't know if I can afford not getting one and may need to look at a career change 😔

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TheGoogleMum · 23/03/2022 18:23

I heard government suggested 3% but unions want at least 5% so it isnt agreed and definitely won't happen from 1st April like its supposed to. Personally I think they should a 1% for every month is delayed... they know its supped to be from April and keep being really late!
3% is more than many will get, but will probably still be a loss compared to cost of living increases.

TabithaTittlemouse · 23/03/2022 18:23

I wouldn’t hold your breath!

TheGoogleMum · 23/03/2022 18:24

Add an extra 1% for every month delayed that was meant to say!

Motnight · 23/03/2022 18:26

I think that it took until August last year to get the April pay rise in our actual pay!

Would be great to get anything above 2% to be honest.

bookish83 · 23/03/2022 18:30

Then some staff end up losing it as paying it as a backdated lump sum bumps your pension bracket up that month!

Thedogscollar · 23/03/2022 18:32

Ha ha just been reading about proposed payrise. Yes 3% has been reported to be the figure but over the years we have infact had a massive pay decrease.
I've been top of my band for years and my salary has remained static for easily the last decade.

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Mw19 · 23/03/2022 18:33

It's really getting to me. I adore my job despite how difficult and stressful it is, but I'm making so so many sacrifices. I feel bitter at taking another hit financially. Hospital car parking charges are returning on 1st April at £8 a day! On top of the cost of everything else going up I don't know where this is going to come from

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overitall1 · 23/03/2022 18:42

I'm CS and we are in the same boat. It's now got to the stage where the only people who get a pay rise in our department are those on under £25k. So that is the single lowest grade. If we're really lucky we might get 1% - problem is, if this keeps happening ( this will be the third year) it will soon be the case that we will be about a grand lower salary than our LM a year, which is patently ridiculous. Yet still you read about the lazy, money-grabbing, final salary leeches that are civil servants. Pisses me right off

Yellowleadbetter · 23/03/2022 18:44

🤣

TheGoogleMum · 23/03/2022 18:48

The pension is actually meant to be changing so many will have increased payments, so between that and the NI increase (at least before Rishi announced changing tax free threshold today) I think it breaks about even for many rather than being an increase. Still others will say we can't complain because other people aren't getting pay rises at all

Crabwoman · 23/03/2022 18:48

@Motnight

I think that it took until August last year to get the April pay rise in our actual pay!

Would be great to get anything above 2% to be honest.

Local government here. Our pay award for last April was only paid this March.

Expect ours will be 1-1.5% is at all.

Yellowleadbetter · 23/03/2022 18:49

It’s laughable isn’t it.
Bloody laughable.

I’ve taken the leap op. I’ve left the nhs after over 30 years frontline service.
I just can’t/won’t be shat on any longer.

ChristmasFluff · 23/03/2022 19:29

I left healthcare completely last year after 35 years as a physio - lots in the NHS, but latterly working for a charity - NHS level wages, poorer pension and holidays.

I now work in specialist customer support. I took a pay cut just to get out - covid took the joy out of my work completely.

Three months and as many pay rises later, I was on a better hourly rate than I was earning as a physio with all that experience. .

That shows how much healthcare workers are valued. I'd never go back.

Nurses, physios, OTs - you have loads of transferable skills that would be properly rewarded in other jobs.

Motnight · 23/03/2022 19:41

@Crabwoman that is ridiculous!

bookish83 · 23/03/2022 19:47

@Mw19

It's really getting to me. I adore my job despite how difficult and stressful it is, but I'm making so so many sacrifices. I feel bitter at taking another hit financially. Hospital car parking charges are returning on 1st April at £8 a day! On top of the cost of everything else going up I don't know where this is going to come from
Don't you have staff parking?
DiscoBadgers · 23/03/2022 19:50

Probably fuck all, but we might get some nice clapping instead….. Hmm

chillipepperdreams · 23/03/2022 19:52

I heard the PS and nhs was getting one this year. I'm in private sector and really don't want to have to leave my job so I get what you mean OP but I've had three years of no pay rises and constant extra work every year so I suppose lots of people will be moving this year just to get by.

Darkstar4855 · 23/03/2022 19:54

@bookish83 most NHS staff are charged for parking, at least in England.

bakebeans · 23/03/2022 19:55

I wouldn’t hold your breath. The general public criticised and sided with the government. The thing is the pay rise that was given last year worked out to be less than inflation like many others.
The lowest wage earner in the NHS had an increase to the national minimum wage which starts for everyone else in April. Other services such as teacher, police, fireman are paid more.
Not saying no one deserves a pay rise. We all do. But yes I hear you. So disappointing

RagzRebooted · 23/03/2022 19:55

Staff have to pay for parking at most hospitals. If they're lucky enough to get a space. My sister in law used to park 40 min walk away (still had to pay). When I was a student nurse, we got half price parking but it was still over £1 a day.
I'm in general practice, so NHS pay and conditions don't apply as we're a business, though we did get the 3% rise last year as a gesture.

bookish83 · 23/03/2022 19:56

@Darkstar4855

I know (I am one!) but visitors parking is usually that price not staff. So was just wondering about staff parking options.

Ours is still free but I am sure they will charge us again soon!

bookish83 · 23/03/2022 20:03

@RagzRebooted

Its awful when that happens. I did walk from on street parking as nowhere near enough parking for staff at my last place. You were lucky not to get shouted at by residents (who all had drives....) and didn't seem to understand that hospital staff had nowhere to park!
£7 a day on visitors so full time day staff could not pay that.

Flapjak · 23/03/2022 20:13

@christmasfluff an intrigued about what sort of area of specialist customer support you are working in

StScholastica · 23/03/2022 20:16

ChristmasFluff
I'm genuinely pleased for you, I also have 30+years service, I've been top of my clinical specialist band for the last 18 years and my pay has hardly risen at all in a decade.
Meanwhile my 20year old DS brings home £200 a month less than me. Its very disheartening.
Ever increasing patient numbers with ever decreasing staff. Never leave less than 1 hour late. Frequently work into the evenings too.
To top it all, we are frequently made to feel like cheeky fuckers for complaining about the pay snd conditions.

Muchtoomuchtodo · 23/03/2022 20:18

A cost of living pay rise as well as expenses that cover our costs would be nice.

I’ve been a the top of my band for 10 years now and without a change in expenses either, as a community worker my expenses are no longer covering my work related driving costs.

I do enjoy my job most days, but I don’t think I should be losing money to do it.