Thread by @faisalislam

So the process on the NHS pay round should be this...

This 1% is the Government’s submission into the Pay Review Body process - others have made other submissions from £2k bonus to 15%...

Pay Review Body will report back in May.

Govt will then choose whether to accept or not

Government’s decision will rest on several factors - the 1% number is a reference to what is deemed affordable within current NHS budgets. Other factors play into the decision, chiefly recruitment and retention..
- this is the full NHSPRB Govt evidence:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

Govt also published Doctors and dentists evidence...

There is lots of very interesting information on trends particularly on the increasing reliance of NHS on non UK staff, and eg levels of sickness absence during pandemic:

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

Eg... noticeable fall in number of EU nurses working in NHS since referendum - down about 2,500 since June 2016 - Govt attributes “most likely” to introduction of more rigorous language test by NMC, since partially reversed:
Support and scientific EU staff up though:

Number of doctors (health/ community health services) from abroad but outside of the EU has almost trebled since 2015-16... EU doctors here down about 15%:

That chart is above refers to new doctors entering the health service the below shows the trend in actual workforce - with rapid growth in rest of the world doctors, though EU and home grown workforce also up: