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Added: Tuesday, 8 July 2008 21:53 BST
Anonymous, Manchester, United Kingdom
The government will expect nurses to man these new polyclinics on this wonderful salary they reckon we get!! Do they say how much the cost of living has gone up in that time. Nurses are expected to carry on learning and Agenda for Change (as far I can see) has given them excuses to reduce pay more often than increase it. Where do all these unions get the right to speak on our behalf without consulting us personally! In real terms we are now worse off than before, yet, MP's were going to ask for a 21% rise - the cheek of it!!
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Added: Monday, 7 July 2008 16:36 BST
Ibraheem Lateef, Tilbury, United Kingdom
In response to the final pay of the the nurse, The basic pay are nothing compare with other professional. I government are banking on overtime nursing are doing to boost their salary. there are risk all this involve.
The patient care are at risk because nurse who has work 13.5 hours over 7 days a week are already stree up to in the patient care and the eessence of care are already redused.
Government should not count on nurses overtime as part of their salary.
decrease in staff level are making most of the nurse to voluntally accepted to do the overtime not something mandatary. If government increase nurses salary rather depending on overtime I am sure the care patient receive will increased.
Also, Government should lift a ban on nurses jod and further training .
Training is for nuses who are on clinical work not the top manager who only trainned to supervised.
Also, If nurses are developed and encourage to go on more research and specialist training with increment in their salary and introduction of allowances to other part of the country not only inner londo and outer london waiting for people in london. Because of the level of inflation and credit crumble now most nurse who only received basic salary without any other fringe benefit attached to it are now sufering more.
Ibraheem Lateef (RMN)
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Added: Sunday, 6 July 2008 15:00 BST
Anonymous, Oxford, United Kingdom
The report says Qualifid nurses NOT NEWLY Qualified Nurses.
An average of ALL Nurses will include a very small number in Band 8 and a lot more in Band 5 but the average is going to be around Band 6. Most Nurses do not work in London but many do, an Average will imclude an account of that proportion.
These figures have been being published every 3 months as the ESR system has rolled out capturing a bigger geographic area each time.
The change since last year included the fact that a high proportion of staff got an increment in October as well as the pay award in November.
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Added: Thursday, 3 July 2008 17:17 BST
Anonymous, Manchester, United Kingdom
So, a basic nursing salary of £27K for a newly qulaified nurse? Well, I am not sure which governmental department is responsible for this calculation but no wonder the NHS is in such a finincial pickle. What planet do they think we are on. We are professional people knowing full well that no newly qulaified nurse earns anywhere near this amount of money. Isn't it great that as we celebrate the NHS at 60 that nurses are yet again kicked where it hurts.
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Added: Monday, 30 June 2008 11:09 BST
Anonymous, Sheffield, United Kingdom
We know what this all means people. the way in which the figures are calculated have changed so there is no reasonable comparison that can be made and the salary of london nurses including weighting will have been used to increase the figures.
there is only one answer to this unsatisfactory position Unison and RCN members come together, stop the florence nightingale romance and take industrial action. We don't have to comparamise the health and welbeing of patients. All we have to do is disrupt the health care system by working to rule.
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Added: Monday, 30 June 2008 09:46 BST
Anonymous, Brighton, United Kingdom
What trhis doesn't say is that they have changed the way in which it is calculated. So to compare with the previous year is nonsense.
If they are going to make claims like this then they should really do their homework and compare the real figure with the increase in cost of living.
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Added: Sunday, 29 June 2008 17:00 BST
cassandra loveridge, Evesham, United Kingdom
i have been qualified 10 months, work full time (37.5 hrs) over 7 days a week mix of early and late shifts, i get less than £20,000 a yr .. who on earth the government were looking at when compiling these figures i dont know, but it wasnt nurses who take care of the sick and dying and deal with every type of bodily fluid imaginable, it was prob teachers who sit in a class room all day ... just to make a point, i made sure my daughter could read and write the alphabet when she started school, silly me thinking it would be picked up on, she had 4 gotten in 6 weeks in...and the work parents have to do at home now compared to when i was at school when it was actually the teachers job to teach?!
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Added: Sunday, 29 June 2008 08:44 BST
Anonymous, Burton On Trent, United Kingdom
This report is shocking. I have been qualified several years, work full time and still only take home a basic of 22,000. Where do they pluck these ridiculous figures from?
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Added: Saturday, 28 June 2008 20:38 BST
Anonymous, Gloucester, United Kingdom
I have been qualified for four years now and with extra shifts I still only take home at best £24,000 a year. I wish I earnt £31,500 a year. Nurses work so hard and have so much to deal with that they shouldn't have to do extra to afford to live. No wonder so many staff are off sick!!
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Added: Saturday, 28 June 2008 17:42 BST
susan griffiths, Willenhall, United Kingdom
what !!!!!! I earn less than £ 20000 per yr basic band 5 ive been qualified 20 yrs very misleading im very disapointed in the misleading statement.The pay is insult enough without adding injury .
(back to basic yr 1 increment due to being agency for a few yrs before returning to nhs ) reckognition for experience ?
I do the job for the challanges not the pay fair enough, but others dont have that luxury.
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