Unions urge nurses and ambulance staff and other members to back deal, including one-off payment.
The biggest three - the Royal College of Nursing, Unison and the GMB - are all backing the deal, while Unite the Union has said it cannot recommend it to members but will put it to a vote."Health workers had to take many days of strike action and thousands more had to threaten to join them to get their unions into the room and proper talks under way.
He also called the pay "affordable for the taxpayer and continues to deliver on my promise to halve inflation".A Downing Street spokesperson later added the government does not believe the pay offer will be inflationary. And when asked whether the money to fund the rise would have to come from the existing NHS/Department for Health and Social Care budget the spokesperson insisted frontline service would not suffer and discussions were taking place between the DHSC and the Treasury.
NHS staff have seen pay rise by an average of 4.75% during 2022-23 - with the lowest paid receiving the biggest rises - but unions had been asking for above-inflation rises, which at one point, would have equated to an increase of more than 14%. The government had originally offered 3.5% from April, for the 2023-24 financial year - but during the talks, ministers agreed to 5%. The lowest paid will receive more.
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