NHS Bonus

[Cooperman]

Bonus payments announced today for NHS workers and care staff.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-wales-politics-56430683

Nearly quarter of a million people are said to benefit from this.

A sweetener in the run up to the election, a genuine goodwill gesture, or both?

 

[dickythorpe]

Well deserved.
Many other key workers out there deserve a bonus.

 

[LeonWasTheDog's]

For an NHS worker on the national wage, that's about double the Chancellor's proposed 1% pay rise for the English NHS. Still not enough after what they've been through imo, but better than a kick in the nuts. I like that it's a flat rate though - lower paid treated the same as those higher up.

 

[Cooperman]

Well deserved.
Many other key workers out there deserve a bonus.

I agree but I don’t know where to draw the line.

 

[Swansea93]

Also care workers wages potentially going up to £10 an hour, they are underpaid for the responsibility some have.

 

[MajorR]

For an NHS worker on the national wage, that's about double the Chancellor's proposed 1% pay rise for the English NHS. Still not enough after what they've been through imo, but better than a kick in the nuts. I like that it's a flat rate though - lower paid treated the same as those higher up.

I know a couple of youngsters who are clinical apprentices in the NHS, they’ve been thrown right in the mx with Covid including working on a Covid Ward for just over £7 an hour deal with death etc. The £500 makes a huge difference for them.