Sara Gorton says exhausted staff need morale boost now
nhs pay
Increase needed to show ministers value staff
Nurses must feel valued and words aren’t enough

Health staff across the UK are entering a second day of campaigning, urging the government to give every NHS worker an early pay rise of at least £2,000
Sara Gorton says People Plan must be backed with investment for early and significant pay rise
Sara Gorton says funding for early NHS staff pay rise needed as well as cash to prepare for Covid-19 resurgence

Striking drug and alcohol rehabilitation workers in Wigan and Leigh in dispute over failed pay promises and staff shortages, halt campaign because of coronavirus
The new UK living wage was announced by the Living Wage Foundation this week. It will be £9.30 across the UK and £10.75 in London.
NHS workers in Northern Ireland have only had a one-year deal of between 1.5 – 3% imposed last year, while other parts of the NHS were awarded three-year pay deals.

Local MPs back drug and alcohol support workers, who were told that pay rises would match NHS workers