- Conference
- 2024 National Health Care Service Group Conference
- Date
- 1 December 2023
- Decision
- Carried
As the cost-of-living crisis continues to hit hard, and has detrimental financial implications for our members, we need to find every single possible way of increasing the monies that our members can earn.
Recent pay increases for most of our members, but not all, have been welcome. However, the rising cost of inflation, and rising household bills, has minimised the benefit that these pay uplifts have given our members, and we merely continue to tread water.
One area of AfC Terms & Conditions that could be utilised to put some extra finance into our members pockets, is through subsistence payments. We have to recognise that many of our members are required as part of their job to work away from their base for short or long term periods. The monetary levels as indicated in Annex 14 of the NHS terms & conditions have not been reviewed since the implementation of AfC.
Conference therefore calls on the service group executive to raise the issue through the NHS Staff Council to negotiate an increase in all of the subsistence payments allowances included in Annex 14 of the NHS terms & conditions handbook.