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Majority back pay rises for nurses, survey finds as RCN warns education model is ‘broken’
NHS workers on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, ahead of a march from the hospital to Trafalgar Square, as members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Unite union continue their strike action in a dispute over pay, May 1, 2023

MINISTERS were urged to “fix a broken nurse-education model” today after a survey found most people think nurses and careworkers are paid too little.

Six in 10 in people Britain think nurses are not paid enough, up 3 per cent from April 2023, the Ipsos poll found.

For careworkers, the figure was 71 per cent, up 8 per cent.

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