{"id":30869,"date":"2023-03-16T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T18:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/16\/barclay-on-nhs-pay-offer-we-listened-to-union-concerns\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T18:18:07","slug":"barclay-on-nhs-pay-offer-we-listened-to-union-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=30869","title":{"rendered":"Barclay on NHS pay offer: We listened to union concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The health secretary said the government and trade unions had worked together &#8220;constructively&#8221;, and reached a pay offer that balanced affordability with the pressures faced by NHS staff.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Steve Barclay was asked why extra money was now being offered for the current year as part of the deal, when he had previously ruled that out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He said the improved offer would not be funded by taking money from patient services, and the NHS would look at underspends and efficiencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-politics-64980734\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Barclay on NHS pay offer: We listened to union concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-64980734?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The health secretary said the government and trade unions had worked together &#8220;constructively&#8221;, and reached a pay offer that balanced affordability with the pressures faced by NHS staff. Steve &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}