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1% Pay Rise for NHS.

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by bantam65, Mar 6, 2021.

  1. 1975citygent

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    I don't think the shortage is down to money, a Tory minister was on the BBC at lunch time saying that they are looking to recruit thousands of nurses.
    The thing is they will probably have to be recruited from abroad. Things have changed from when I was young. I know that men go into nursing now but when I was young if girls didn't go on to University a lot of them got a job until they found a husband and started a family or went into nursing (or both). Without being too controversial young girls have different priorities these days.
    In my opinion however much we pay nurses it isn't enough but at the moment finances are stretched. The big internet companies like Amazon for example need to start paying more tax, now that would be a start.
    A lot of people say we need to spend more money on the NHS but it isn't all about money, a lot of the problems are to do with the actual running of it.
     
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    I thought they didn't take the rise last year, I may be wrong.
     
  3. 1975citygent

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    Sorry Aaron, I didn't read all your thread mate.
     
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    Scotland have gone for 4% for most NHS staff, Drs, consultants and execs are excluded. The announcement said that will mean on average a nurse will receive a pay rise of £1,500, those on the lowest rates will get at least £1,000(5.4%)
     
  5. trevor

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    Easy political score for the SNP as the English taxpayer will foot the bill anyway
     
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    they will only get funding for what ever NHS England finally decide, rest will have to come from Elsewhere or local income tax
     
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    It will come from English taxpayers with a claim for an increase under the Barnett formula that funds Scotland

    The Barnett formula is a mechanism used by the Treasury in the United Kingdom to automatically adjust the amounts of public expenditure allocated to Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to reflect changes in spending levels allocated to public services in England, England and Wales or Great Britain, as appropriate.
     
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    The Institute of fiscal Studies has warned that SNP ministers have used short term Covid funding to pay for a raft of pre-election give -aways. It said that tens of millions from the treasury were being used to fund free school meals, free bus travel, a council tax freeze and possibly above inflation NHS pay rises.
     
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    I wonder if the SNP are trying to bribe the Scottish electorate, surely no political party would do that.
     
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