With union expected to announce vote in favour of a UK walkout, what is the dispute about?
The starting salary for a nurse is England is just over £27,000 a year. This is the bottom of pay band five of the NHS contract, known as Agenda for Change.As part of the contract staff are entitled to in-the-job pay increases within their pay band.
The RCN said the average pay for a full-time established nurse was just above £32,000 last year - similar to average pay across the economy.The ballot is not a national vote. Instead a series of mini ballots have been run in local services, such as across a hospital trust or community service, but not GP practices.
It is expected that the first walkout will be before Christmas - in Northern Ireland it has to start within one month of the ballot closing.What might it mean for patients? For services such as intensive care there will be a complete derogation - all nursing staff will be expected to work.Much of this will be negotiated individually by service managers and union reps.
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