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BRITAIN’S biggest union Unite is calling on private companies and the Department of Health to give indirectly employed NHS workers the same pay increase as employees.
More than a million health workers will receive a pay rise worth 6.5 per cent to most staff over the next three years.
But thousands of workers in the health service, many of them low-paid, have been excluded from the deal as they are indirectly employed, which Unite says is unjust.
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Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
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