{"id":11964,"date":"2017-03-31T15:45:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=11964"},"modified":"2017-03-31T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:45:40","slug":"nhs-agency-staff-back-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=11964","title":{"rendered":"NHS agency staff back down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The back down by NHS bosses on an edict that would have restricted agency staff working in the NHS has been welcomed by Unite today (March 31).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The union, which has 100,000 members in the health service, said it would have been \u00e2\u20ac\u0098grossly unfair\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that NHS trusts would not have been able to employ existing NHS staff, <a href=\"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/all-for-just-a-fiver\/\">hit by continued below-inflation pay increases<\/a>, as agency staff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite welcomes this statement from NHS Improvement that it has pressed \u00e2\u20ac\u0098pause\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on this edict which was due to have come into force on April 1,&#8221; said Unite national officer for health Colenzo Jarrett-Thorpe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt would have been grossly unfair &#8211; after the Pay Review Body (PRB) recommendation this week of a measly one per cent increase for NHS staff \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that health workers struggling, in many cases, to make ends meet were denied opportunities to boost their incomes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe hope to work with NHS Improvement and other staff side unions to ensure that already hard-up NHS staff do not suffer further detriment as a result of the general NHS drive to reduce spending on agency and locum staff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe background to this is that the majority of NHS staff has suffered a 17 per cent cut in pay in real terms since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThat is why many NHS workers join agencies, work as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098bank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 staff or volunteer for overtime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhile this announcement will be a welcome relief, one solution to this problem is for NHS staff to have their real term pay cuts restored by a generous pay settlement the next time the PRB reports.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NHS Improvement said that it is pausing until further notice the instruction that trusts should ensure that staff engaged through an agency are not substantively employed elsewhere in the NHS. Normal processes will remain in place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The back down by NHS bosses on an edict that would have restricted agency staff working in the NHS has been welcomed by Unite today (March 31). &nbsp; The union, which has 100,000 members in the health service, said it would have been \u00e2\u20ac\u0098grossly unfair\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that NHS trusts would not have been able to employ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[534,29,75],"wps_subtitle":"Edict on agency staff limits welcomed ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11970,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964\/revisions\/11970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}