and other health care staff. nhs leaders today were making clear that in this plan they will be policies to retain staff and they can kick in quickly, offering more flexible working, better childcare and doing everything possible to makejob satisfaction at a higher level, persuading people who might otherwise left to stay. and the policy to allow retired consultants to come back and do outpatient clinics. but as we have heard, the payissue clinics. but as we have heard, the pay issue has not been resolved. one of the big questions tonight is how many people can be persuaded to stay who might otherwise have left, in time for all these new stuff that we ve heard about the day coming on stream? but that won t be for at least five years into the future. many thanks. a court has been told that the hollywood star kevin spacey is a sexual bully who likes making other people feel powerless. the allegation was made at the start of the actor s trial in london. he s accused of sex offences agains
doctors the next month because of a dispute with the scottish government over their offer. and the royal couege over their offer. and the royal college of nursing closes a ballot later today on whether they will reopen strike action and senior doctors, the consultants, are balloting until next tuesday, so the payissue balloting until next tuesday, so the pay issue has not gone away. hugh . m, pay issue has not gone away. hugh m, our pay issue has not gone away. hugh pym. our health pay issue has not gone away. hugh pym, our health editor, pay issue has not gone away. hugh pym, our health editor, thank you. mortgage lenders have met the chancellor, jeremy hunt, to look at ways they can help homeowners struggling with fast rising interest rates. yesterday, the bank of england again increased the base rate this time by half a percentage point to 5%. among the measures being considered is offering borrowers longer to pay back their loans. our business correspondent, peter ruddick,
something to stop all of this industrial action? something to stop all of this industrialaction? i something to stop all of this industrial action? something to stop all of this industrial action? i think there is definitely pressure, industrial action? i think there is definitely pressure, then, - industrial action? i think there is definitely pressure, then, for. industrial action? i think there is i definitely pressure, then, for some kind of resolution to this. there are a small number of conservative mps, for example, who say that when it comes to nurses, the government should look again at the issue of pay by referring that case back to the pay board to look into this sort of thing. what i don t think that we have at the moment is any sense that the government is prepared to budge on the pay issue. we do have the health secretary saying to unions, let s get back around the table and talk about things but the things he wants to talk about are very different to the things they w
look again at the issue of pay by referring that case back to the pay board to look into this sort of thing. what i don t think that we have at the moment is any sense that the government is prepared to budge on the pay issue. we do have the health secretary saying to unions, let s get back around the table and talk about things, but the things he wants to talk about are very different to the things they want to talk about. steve barclay wants to talk about conditions and patient safety in england. he is still sticking to his line that the government is not prepared to go back to discussing the issue of pay, and that means this situation remains stuck. it means that the unions are still quite angry. the unison chief was on the today programme on radio 4 this morning, saying ministers had been intransigent, that when it came to the ambulance strikes this wednesday, they will go ahead unless the government comes up with a firm offer on pay. the prospect of that is vanishingly
at the moment is any sense that the government is prepared to budge on the pay issue. we do have the health secretary saying to unions, let s get back around the table and talk about things, but the things he wants to talk about are very different to the things they want to talk about. steve barclay wants to talk about conditions and patient safety in england. he is still sticking to his line that the government is not prepared to go back to discussing the issue of pay, and that means this situation remains stuck. it means that the unions are still quite angry. the unison chief was on the today programme on radio 4 this morning, saying ministers had been intransigent, that when it came to the ambulance strikes this wednesday, they will go ahead unless the government comes up with a firm offer on pay. the prospect of that is vanishingly thin so i think there is a pretty high likelihood that the strikes this week do go ahead. so what are ministers doing?