claps won t pay the bills. day four of the junior doctors strike. but on this picket line in central london, as well as making their own voices heard, they re keen to know whether nurses will vote to end their dispute with the government. we are watching this very closely because the nurses are our colleagues. we work in the same environment. we re part of the same teams. the walk out by nurses has been on hold following a new proposal by the government. nurses in england have been offered a one off payment of at least £1,655 as a top up for the last financial year. there s also a 5% consolidated salary rise for this year. the vote on whether to accept it closed at 9:00 this morning. the result is due later today. the nhs confederation, which represents health organisations, is keen to see an end to this dispute. when you add in losing large portions of your staff to industrial action, it makes a very difficult situation, almost impossible to manage.
in england and then a top up for the last financial year of roughly £1600. so that is the kind of deal i think the government will probably be looking for here. junior doctors reject that for a number of reasons. when you look at the statistics, it does show that over the last 15 years, the pay of doctors, consultants and junior doctors, consultants and junior doctors, consultants being the more senior doctors in hospitals, pay has fallen at a rate that eschew upper than ambulance workers and nurses. so all three of those groups will have seen real terms pay for to a certain extent. but doctors have seen it for more and the bma s and junior doctors argument is that they need to see this 35% pay increase to restore junior doctors pay to where it was 15 to 20 years ago. part of the problem here is thatjunior doctors are sticking strongly to that demand. they argue that there are staffing pressures on the nhs at the moment and unlessjunior
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large group of people who qualify for the top up at the moment, but not for the disability benefit, so for new claimants, when these changes come in, if they don t get the disability benefit, they will not get the top up and they will be expected to work. ministers are also expected to work. ministers are also expected to work. ministers are also expected to bring in artificial intelligence to automatically cut people s benefits if they fall foul of the system, particularly if they turn down a job offer. it is worth pointing out that sanctions at the moment are at near record levels and the academic literature suggests they do not work in moving people into a job. and finally on the word on those over 50 is that everybody keeps talking about the extent to which the benefits system can get them to move into a job. the resolution foundation has calculated thatjust resolution foundation has calculated that just one resolution foundation has calculated thatjust one in ten of those aged 55