The National Health Service pay deal was rushed, went over budget and has produced little benefit for patients

King's Fund: NHS pay deal failed to deliver for patients and staff - Independent

Extract:

"The overhaul of National Health Service pay was rushed, went over budget and has produced little benefit for patients, the Government will be told today.

Under the new system, more than one million NHS employees - including nurses, midwives, porters and most managers - were put into one of nine salary bands in an attempt to harmonise pay across the country.

But the King's Fund, an independent health think-tank, has delivered a damning verdict on the pay structure, which was finally introduced after five years of negotiations with unions.

It concluded that transferring staff to the Agenda for Change system became "an end in itself" for some NHS trust managers rather than a way to deliver benefits such as treating patients more quickly.

The fund found nurses were unhappy with the pay structure and it warned that the costs of the new system, which exceeded its budget by £220m, were more obvious than the benefits."


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