UK health service pay rise of 1% is half of what was included in budgets, says trusts group

The organisation said detailed work had been conducted by the NHS on a long-term plan in which it claimed the UK Government assumed an NHS pay rise in 2021/22 of 2.1%, not 1%.

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Ministers have recommended an NHS staff pay rise of half what was budgeted for, according to the organisation representing NHS trusts in England.

NHS Providers is challenging the UK Government over its defence of the recommendation for health workers to receive a 1% increase, which Labour says is a “real-terms cut” to wages.