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To the main issue of pay. the government has said we are sticking to the recommendation of the independent pay review body, which has put forward this 4.75% offer on average to nhs staff, with a guaranteed minimum of £1,400. the union said it is not enough, it needs to be at inflation or more because they have had successive pay freezes, which means workers have seen a real terms pay cut. hundreds of people turned out for a vigilforfour young boys, who died after falling through a frozen lake in solihull last sunday. eight—year—old finlay butler, and his six—year—old brother samuel, t...

Cancelled because of the action or the next action on tuesday. try doing it without striking. we wanted to not strike, that is important to us. the government says they can't afford to give us the money and we are saying you can't afford not to, patients are too important. if we don't have good wages and appropriate remuneration we're not going — appropriate remuneration we're not going to retain staff in the — not going to retain staff in the profession so than even more — the profession so than even more things could get cancelled in the _ more things could get cancelled in the future....

Not for the nursing, i but it's for our patients. so, the more nurses we have, the better care we can give. . a former conservative health minister, a doctor by training, is appealing to ministers to offer more than the current 4.75% already on the table. so, in terms of retention and recruitment, itjust makes sense for the government to focus on paying a little bit more in terms of the pay that�*s available and give a bit of a better pay rise because it�*s more likely that more nurses will stay working for the nhs. but the department of health remains adamant that the rise nurses want is ...

Us. the government says they cannot afford to give us the money and we said you cannot afford not to. if we do not have — said you cannot afford not to. if we do not have good _ said you cannot afford not to. if we do not have good wages _ said you cannot afford not to. if we do not have good wages we will never retain_ do not have good wages we will never retain staff _ do not have good wages we will never retain staff in the recession. we need safe _ retain staff in the recession. we need safe care for patients. it is not personal. _ need safe care for patients. it is not personal, not— ...

The government often refers to it when defending the 4.75% pay offer already made to nurses in england, emphasising that the figure is based on the review body's advice. but on yesterday's programme, the chief executive of the royal college of nursing, pat cullen, questioned its credibility. what is the point of the independent pay review body? an independent pay review body set up by government, paid by government, appointed by government, and the parameters of their review set by government. so there is nothing independent about it, and that's why they come up with the 3% that they have come...