How does the NHS solve the multitude of issues facing its workforce? Over the past week tens of thousands of nurses, paramedics and other medical staff went on strike over pay and conditions.
Amid consistently-high inflation, pay will be the top priority for workers – and by extension unions. Nurses’ pay is worth less in real terms than it was in 2010 and NHS England, after receiving recommendations from the government’s independent public pay board, has offered most staff only a 4 per cent raise.
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