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[More than a million NHS staff in England
are to get a 5% pay rise after health unions
backed the deal.
Staff including ambulance workers, nurses,
physios and porters will also get
a one-off sum of at least £1,655.

The pay deal was signed off at a meeting
between the government and
14 health unions representing all NHS staff
apart from doctors and dentists.

Ministers said it was time to bring the strikes
to an end, but three unions are still threatening
to continue action.

However, only one - Unite - currently has a strike
mandate and that is for local strikes in
some ambulance services and a few hospitals.

Unison head of health Sara Gorton,
who chairs the joint NHS union group,
said: "NHS workers will now want the pay
rise they've voted to accept.]


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65458663