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Hi, can anyone out there inform me of the negotiated rise that we can expect or hope to expect if were still in jobs come next month?

The review board recomended 2% across the NHS, don't know if the unions have accepted this.

I thought we were in the final year of the agreed 3.225% salary increase? from this point onwards we would be looking at standard inflation of circa 2%

I may be wrong through..

The Pay Review body for nurses and other healthcare professionals is I believe advising of a pay increase not exceeing 2.5%.
There is a publication on the DoH website.

The last 3.225% pay award(final year of three) was the award made in April of 2005. This year its open to negotiation with the employers . The Dept. of Health are advising an award of 2%, the employers(NHS) say they cannot pay more than 2.5%.

There is a rationale justifying a 2.25% pay rise on the NHS Employers website - it's been there for months. I think 2.25% is likely - probably later in the year, as used to be the case before the 3-year agreement of 3.225% that's just expired. Remembering that increments under AfC will be in October of course.

Thats assuming you got the band you wanted and are not stuck up at the top of the next lower band. This has happened almost universally here probably to eliminate the need to pay increments. Thats if you're lucky enough to have been assimilated onto AFC yet!

There was an article in one of the Sunday papers suggesting 2.25% across the board. Other than senior managers and consultants who wher to get less?

Fair point.

At risk of straying off-thread I think it was a foregone conclusion that some experienced MTO3 technicians, in particular, would be left in this situation - it isn't good for morale, for R&R and isn't necessarily fair in my view - I wonder whether the AfC process was applied consistently.

However, just loking at the situations vacant on this site alone, it seems that the salary for skilled, qualified and experienced technicians is actually tending to be pitched between Band 5 and 6 and there's an increase in demand (or could this be that situations are becoming vacant because those that are unhappy are creating them?).

Nurses have a similar issue concerning AfC grading for "E" grade Nurses being graded lower than their expectations and then being "lumped" together with "D" grades; thus in many areas fully qualified and experienced individuals have been graded the same as many fully-qualified new entrants and will still be supporting them.

I'm certain there'll be other occupations with similar experiences - despite all the "penny-pinching" that may have gone on at some trusts it seems that AfC wasn't adequately financed (according to various things I've read and heard). I believe the nurses representatives are pushing for 3.5% (so I've read in a few papers and elsewhere). I think, given the current low-inflation economic climate, that they're being optimistic irrespective of whether I think they deserve it, financially speaking.