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Health workers will soon find out how serious Sajid Javid is about his determination to get them “everything that they need”. (See 11.31am.) Pat Cullen, acting chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, told BBC Breakfast this morning that Javid could find the recommendation from the NHS pay review body on his desk today. In its submission to the body, the government recommended a pay rise of just 1%.
Cullen said:
We understand that the pay review body – the body that recommends the pay award for health care staff including nurses – may very well be in [Javid’s] in-tray this morning.
And what we’re saying to him, please don’t insult nurses by awarding them a 1% pay award.
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