RCN leader Pat Cullen said she was “extremely disappointed” at the stance the government had adopted and said wages were “fundamental” to the dispute
Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are set to go on strike after a meeting with health secretary Steve Barclay failed to produce any agreement. The Royal College of Nursing , the nurses’ trade union, has accused the government of “belligerence”.
Every health trust in Northern Ireland and all except one in Wales voted to strike. In England, almost half of NHS trusts failed to meet the legally-required minimum turnout threshold to take strike action. Why are nurses going on strike? Nurses are set to go on strike in a dispute over pay. The RCN points out that its members have seen their pay fall by 20% in real terms since 2010; the union says this has contributed to the loss of 25,000 nurses from the profession over the last year alone.
Newly-qualified nurses start in Band 5 on the NHS pay scale, with a starting salary of £27,055 a year in England . Band 6 nurses earn £33,706 to £40,588, while Band 7 nurses earn between £41,659 and £47,672 a year.
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