The 14 unions representing Agenda for Change staff balloted their members on the pay offer, which they negotiated with ministers during intensive talks across February and March.Īll apart from Unite recommended the improved deal to members, with RCN leaders only performing a U-turn and criticising the sum after their members voted against it. 'We will continue to engage constructively with unions on workforce changes to ensure the NHS is the best place to work for staff, patients and taxpayers.' Ms Harrison added: 'While today's acceptance of the improved pay offer represents progress, much more needs to be done restore NHS workers' decade of lost earnings and provide the public with the health service they deserve.'

The letter also calls for action to tackle violence in the workplace, a change on unsocial hours payments for ambulance workers, work to examine the early retirement of many ambulance staff and better funding for mental health and social care. 'We will not be participating in the PRB process until it is reformed.' 'We are calling for significant reform to ensure that proper pay rises, with full pay restoration to make up for over a decade of lost earnings, can be fulfilled as soon as possible. The letter from GMB national secretary Rachel Harrison says: 'The Pay Review Body (PRB), as it currently stands, is clearly unfit for purpose. In a letter to Health Secretary Steve Barclay, GMB said the body needs 'significant reform'.

The body advises on pay of staff on the Agenda for Change contract which includes all NHS staff apart from doctors, dentists and very senior managers. Government officials and many NHS unions have largely agreed to a revised pay offer after months of industrial action.īut union GMB said it will not engage with the NHS Pay Review Body in the future.

Ministers have been urged to make sweeping changes to the way NHS wages are agreed after a long-running row over pay.

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