Economic Crisis Leaves NHS Facing Staff Shortage Timebomb - Royal College Of Nursing, UK

Health workers across the NHS are facing severe hardship due to the current economic crisis and the effect of a below inflation pay deal. With inflation running at a 16-year high, NHS unions have joined forces to press the Government to reopen pay talks for next year. The unions argue that the three-year pay deal agreed earlier this year is now leaving hundreds of thousands of NHS workers struggling to make ends meet.

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Filed under: Nursing on October 28th, 2008