Nine out of 10 nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland reject pay award | Nursing

Nine of 10 nurses rejected a 3.6% prize for this year and warned that they could strike later this year unless their salaries healed.

91% of the Royal Nursing College (RCN) in the British, Wales and Northern Ireland said that 91% of the indicator game was not enough.

The union told the ministers to önümüz to use the writing to reach the investment in the nursing labor force, or to confront the official rise against the ballot of an industrial action and an industrial action.

A new NHS industrial relationship for nurses’ rejection of salary payments overwhelming, London, Cardiff and Belfast, a new NHS industrial relationship headache, especially in the UK, who is looking for a 29% wage increase by resident doctors Wes Streeting, trying to solve strikes.

Other trade unions representing the staff in the UK, while expressing increasing unrest over wage and threatening to strike until January, resident doctors may cause NHS in different parts of England to deteriorate in autumn or winter.

RCN said: “In the largest consultation carried out by 91% of RCN, the 3.6% payment award of NHS personnel is not enough to be grasped with widespread empty positions, years of wage erosion and blocked career progress.”

The Union said that more than 56% of the participation and more than 170,000 RCN members voted. It did not provide full participation numbers or voting in three countries.

Profi Nicola Ranger, the Secretary General of RCN and Chairman of the Executive Officer, said: “ [NHS] It deserves to be valuable for our service and all skills, knowledge and experiences. In order to avoid the official rise, the government must be loyal to the word and negotiate the reforms in the old wage structure that has been imprisoned in the same group during the entire career. “

Nurses in the UK held several pauses in search of a better wage at the end of 2022 and early 2023.

RCN also requires an agenda for the change, which is a UK -wide mechanism to negotiate the wages of NHS personnel except for doctors and dentists. The long -standing agreement, “Nurses provide low initial salaries, tens of thousands of nurses capture the same payment group to all their careers and years of experience, skills, official qualifications and education, despite the progress of the staff,” he said.

NHS bosses said that patients would suffer if nurses collide again. “NHS leaders will be disappointed to hear more walking due to the fact that dust is barely settled in a five -day settled doctor strike, Rory said Rory Deightton, the NHS Confederation of Acute and Community Care Director. “Patients are the most painful patients during industrial action because they wait longer for vital treatments in pain, discomfort and distress.”

The public is divided on the possibility of an action campaign renewed by nurses. In the vote by Yougov this week, 47% said that they supported nurses who are on the strike for a fee, and 43% would be strong or somehow.

The Ministry of Health and Social Care, the UK nurses in May of Streeting in May rejected the 3.6% award, he said. A DHSC spokesman said, “After receiving two wage increases from this government, the new full -time nurses will earn basic wages for the first time this year, so RCN members are disappointed that the members of RCN are satisfied with this year’s wage increase.”

Uz We value the work of the nurses greatly and thanks to our 10 -year health plan, we are rebuilt NHS for the benefit of patients and personnel, and to ensure that the nursing is an attractive career choice. This government will not be able to move more in the title payment, but we will work with RCN to improve the structural reform, career progress and wider working conditions.