How to ask for a pay rise if you work outside the NHS
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How to ask for a pay rise if you work outside the NHS

Nick Evans Health journalist
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Many nurses are not on Agenda for Change contracts and therefore may need to negotiate their own pay

NHS nurses and support workers in England, Scotland and Wales are getting a 5.5% pay rise this year. The 2024-25 award for staff on Agenda for Change (AfC) contracts has been delayed and will now be backdated, and many nurses – most of the RCN’s NHS membership participating in a consultation in England – say it is not good enough. But what is pay like for nursing staff not directly employed by NHS organisations and without AfC contracts? And how do they secure a rise?

Nursing Older People. 36, 6, 11-12. doi: 10.7748/nop.36.6.11.s5

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02 December 2024 / Vol 36 issue 6

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