Tell your MP: NHS workers need a pay rise

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Nurses, carers, cleaners and other healthcare workers are working flat out every day to keep hospitals running and save as many lives as they can, just as they are every single day when there is not a pandemic.

Tragically, it is estimated that more than 600 NHS workers have died of coronavirus, and many more suffer from mental health problems after working throughout the pandemic.

But despite this, NHS workers don’t get rewarded with a corresponding salary. In fact, nursing salaries have fallen behind the cost of living for a decade. In light of all this, the government's proposed 1% pay rise is nothing short of an insult.

We need to do better. The Scottish government has announced a pay rise of 4% for NHS workers in Scotland – the Westminster government can surely at least match that figure.

Even a 15% pay rise would only mean that nurses and other healthcare staff’s salaries are brought up to the level where it would have been, if they had not been given below-inflation pay rises since 2010.

All of us who live in the UK owe healthcare workers a huge debt of gratitude and we need to pay them in a way that will make a real difference in their lives.

That is why I'm calling on you to support all efforts to give NHS workers the pay rise they so desperately need and deserve.

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