Unsocial hours income may be cut to pay for 'seven-day NHS'

摘要

Nurses could, in the future, see their unsocial hours payments reduced or removed altogether under government proposals to make the NHS in England a "seven-day service".Ministers want to modify the existing system for unsocial hours payments, which they claim is "out of date" and creates a "potential barrier" to providing affordable care at the weekends and in evenings.Last autumn, the Department of Health asked the NHS Pay Review Body to look into "affordable out-of-hours working arrangements".