NHS medical and dental staff across Scotland are to receive a 2.8% pay rise, Health Secretary Jeanne Freeman has announced. She said the above-inflation pay rise, backdated to April 1 2020, will ensure senior medical staff in Scotland "continue to be the best paid in the UK".BMA Scotland said the salary hike is a step "on the long road to restoring morale and improving doctors' working lives".But Dr Lewis Morrison, chairman of the organisation, said there is a "long way to go to reverse the negative impact of over a decade of previous pay announcements".The move was announced after Chancellor Rishi Sunak said public-sector workers south of the border who have been on the front line of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic will be given a.
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