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Old 22-04-2012, 20:00   #1
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Lower pay for NHS staff in poorer areas

The Health Secretary Andrew Lansley backs lower pay for NHS staff in poorer areas

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The health secretary Andrew Lansley, is threatening another controversial revolution in the NHS by proposing that its staff be paid less if they work in poorer parts of the country.
The cabinet minister is backing a plan for regional pay, which would mean that nurses, midwives, hospital porters, cleaners and paramedics would earn less if they work in the north or the Midlands rather than in the south of England. Official documents reveal that the only exemption backed by the Department of Health would be for highly paid managers working in new bodies established to deliver Lansley's controversial NHS reform programme, widely criticised as a privatisation of the health service.
Is this government hoping to cause strike action with such an outlandish scheme as the above as that is the only outcome I can see if they go ahead with this stupid idea of a new North/ South divide.
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