Calls have been made for the government to give ‘exhausted’ NHS staff an early pay rise of £2,000 each.Thousands of health staff across the North West – including nurses, paramedics, cleaners, domestics and porters – have written to their MPs asking them to back a pay rise for them in time for Christmas.Staff employed in hospitals, clinics and ambulance stations across the region are urging politicians to put their case to the government for a ‘significant pay rise’ of at least £2,000 for every NHS worker.The NHS pay rise is due next April, but union UNISON argues health workers are already worn out from the early stages of the pandemic and bringing the increase forward would help them to feel more valued during the hard winter.
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