'Pay attack will sink morale and add to staffing crisis'

摘要

The news that nurses' pay rises are to be no more than 1% in 2015-16 can't come at a worse time for the profession (page 2). Just two weeks ago, we revealed that nursing was due to face a chronic shortage by 2016 (news, page 2,19 June). This virtual pay cut (because that is really what it is) will do little to attract new recruits into the profession, or make existing nurses feel respected.Ministers are playing a dangerous game at the moment with the morale of nurses, and to find out that you are valued so little that you will not be given a decent pay rise will not help the situation.