tonight with the context, anand menon, director of the thinktank, the uk in a changing europe and the former spokesperson for the republican national committee doug heye welcome to the programme. around a million health workers in england have been offered a new pay deal today, which could bring to an end months of damaging strikes in the nhs. the unions at the negotation, represent a wide variety of health staff from nurses, paramedics, and midwives, to emergency call handlers and cleaners. the deal now on the table comes in two parts. first a one off payment for the 22/23 financial year that the government will pay within weeks which rises from 1,600 pounds 1,900 dollars for the lowest paid, to around £3,700 for senior managers. and on top of that there s a 5% pay rise for next year. most of the unions involved in the talks says they will recommend their members accept the offer. here s the prime minister. we ve got a great plan in place to make improvements and yo
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