NHS staff
Fact checks including NHS staff levels and NHS pay
Is the NHS Pay Review Body ‘independent’?
With many NHS workers on strike, some unions have challenged the independence of its pay review body. We take a look at the facts behind some of the main claims.
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Steve Barclay’s figure for new nurses’ pay includes extra earnings
The health secretary said that a new nurse will typically earn over £31,000 a year on current pay. This is an estimate that includes extra earnings such as overtime. Basic …
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NHS pay award will increase pay for nurses by 72p per hour
At Prime Minister’s Questions Labour MP Ian Lavery said nurses had been given a '72p a week pay rise'. The pay award offered to most NHS staff actually amounts to …
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Two doctors with same name cause Times letter confusion
A social media post incorrectly claims that a letter written to The Times was from a doctor who died in 2016.
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Daily Mail report on GPs seeing fewer patients on Fridays needs more context
There are some important caveats to figures showing GP appointments drop off later in the week.
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Casting call for ‘hospital patients’ was for NHS recruitment advert
Some have claimed a search for extras shows something fishy is going on.
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Is there a precedent for mandatory vaccines for care home workers?
Some healthcare workers are required by their employers to have the Hepatitis B vaccine, but it's not a specific law.
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Here’s exactly what Nadine Dorries said on Woman’s Hour about nurses’ salaries
The health minister spoke about nurses’ husbands and partners in a discussion about pay rises, but not exactly as reported in a viral tweet.
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What’s the deal with NHS pay rises?
The 0.7% funding is on top of the proposed 1% NHS pay increase, but it will only benefit a minority of staff.
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Clearing up the NHS pay debate
Parliament made a commitment to raise the total NHS budget, but did not specify how that money should be spent.
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