After seven years, the government have finally lifted the NHS pay cap.
Pay in the NHS was frozen for two years from 2011, and increases have been capped at 1 per cent since. Over the period, inflation has whittled away at the real terms value of pay; a nurse today is paid 10 per cent less in real terms than 2011, an eye-watering pay cut of £3,214.
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