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Pay cap on NHS staff to be lifted
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has told MPs that the cap on NHS staff pay will be scrapped, but fell short of saying whether extra funding would be allocated to the NHS to cover the cost.
Hunt said that he had been given ‘leeway’ to end the seven-year run of one per cent rises or pay freezes by the Chancellor Philip Hammond, as they were no longer sustainable.
However, when questioned if the government would cover the cost, Hunt said: “That is something I can’t answer right now because the latitude that the chancellor has given me in terms of negotiating future pay rises is partly linked to productivity improvements that we will negotiate at the same time.”
Simon Stevens recently warned that the Treasury would have to increase the NHS budget to meet the pay rise given the health service’s tight finances. Speaking to the Commons cross-party Health Select Committee, the NHS England chief said that it needed to be funded, and that ‘it will be necessary for NHS staff to get rates of pay that are consistent with the rest of the economy’.
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