Following the government’s proposal to raise NHS salaries by 1% next year, the Daily Mail reported that “many” NHS staff will actually receive a 1.7% pay increase.
But this isn’t accurate, and misrepresents the extra 0.7% funding the government has put into NHS staff pay.
In addition to the 1% rise, the government plans to spend 0.7% more on staff salaries as a whole. This extra funding will only grant a minority of staff larger salary increases, and the majority won’t benefit. So it’s wrong for the Daily Mail to claim that “many” staff will receive a 1.7% pay rise.
Overall, ‘…the data suggests that the vast majority of NHS staff will only receive the 1% proposed uplift, if the proposals go ahead. A significant minority of staff would see their salary rise by more than 1% either due to the change in pay structure in bands 5, 6 and 7 or standard pay progression.’
NHS pay is a complicated topic and has a ‘band’ system to calculate salaries. Full Fact explain this in their article:
What’s the deal with NHS pay rises?
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