Up to 100,000 NHS nurses are stood on the picket line today. The Royal College of Nursing is is calling for a 19.2 per cent pay rise, 5 per cent above inflation, which the government say it is unaffordable .
i don t think it can change, i actually think it is dangerous for trade unions as well as for governments that if review body recommendations are routinely revisited, i don t think it can change, i actually think it is dangerous for trade unions as well as for governments that if review body recommendations are routinely revisited, but i think what the government could do and maybe trade unions could accept if everyone is looking for a reasonable way out is for the government to say to the review body, let s do your next report very quickly as quickly as you possibly can and in doing that report, take account of any new evidence you might have received after you made your recommendations last year. so a sort of inherent catch up, if you like. meanwhile, we have heard from nurses who don t support the strikes. richard knowles, a psychiatric nurse, is one of them. i m in a profession that i don t think should ever take strike action except that there are reassurances about maintaining li
to 55,000 but the royal college of nursing says the average for an established nurse is closer to 32,000. this is the assessment from a former chair of the nhs pay review body. i don t think it can change because i actually think it is dangerous for trade unions as well as for governments that if review body recommendations are routinely revisited, but i think what the government could do and maybe trade unions could accept if everyone is looking for a reasonable way out is for the government to say to the review body, let s do your next report very quickly as quickly as you possibly can and in doing that report, take account of any new evidence you might have received after you made your recommendations last year. so a sort of inherent catch up, if you like. meanwhile we have heard from nurses who don t support the strikes. richard knowles is one of them. i m in a profession that i don t think should ever take strike action except that there are reassurances about maintaining life sav
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