Most nurses are happy with the new pay system, but they are not confident it is being implemented fairly

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Unison senior national officer Mike Jackson says it was wrong to allow doctors, other health professionals and anci I lary workers to have separate pay spines. "We should have a single pay spine forallNHSstaff.Thedecisionbackinl998 to create three pay spines was made forpolitical reasons and it was a mistake.'Amicus lead officer for nursing Barrie Brown says implementation of AfC has not been handled well in all areas. His union is calling for the RB to carry out an equal value audit of the new pay system to ensure it is doing what it should be. In its evidence to the RB, submitted last month, Amicus listed a number of "abuses' that it says interfere with the equal pay objective.