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After months of hard negotiations, UNISON has now secured an improved pay
offer for NHS Staff covered by Agenda for Change.
All members will be balloted between 20 August and 13 September on whether the
offer should be accepted.
UNISON believes that this is the best offer that can be secured through
negotiation. The offer will be slightly different until October 2007 in England
to the other three UK countries. However, all rates of pay would come back into
line on 1 November 2007.
The improved offer includes
the following points for all NHS staff in England:
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£400 for staff on pay points 1-7 with
1.5% payable from 1 April 2007and the remainder from 1 November 2007
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2.5% + £38 for staff on pay points 8-18
with 1.5% from 1 April 2007 and the remainder from 1 November 2007
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2.5% with 1.5% payable from 1 April
2007 and with the balance from 1 November 2007 for all other staff
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Funding to the equivalent of £25 per
member of staff who is not required to have clinical professional registration
to practice is made available by the Department of Health in 2007/08 to trusts
to support training projects for that group of staff. Projects to be agreed
locally in partnership with applications for funding signed off by the trust
chief executive and staff side chair.
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A payment of £38 a year to AfC clinical staff in bands 5-8(A)
inclusive who are in professions where registration
is a mandatory requirement of practice to support the payment of fees for their
clinical registration from 2007 to 2010 inclusive, by when it will have been
jointly reviewed.
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A statement about the issues that will
be discussed in multi-year pay deal talks. The statement does not pre-commit any
party to agree a multi-year pay deal or to pre-agree any specific element. It
does not exclude discussion of other issues but it does indicate that these
issues will be addressed in good faith.
There is some further detail in the offer. You can view and print
the full text of the offer (in pdf format) by clicking
here.
 
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