NHS: Pay
(asked on 28th June 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the public sector pay cap on staffing levels in the NHS.
This question was answered on 4th July 2017
National Health Service staff do a fantastic job and the government is committed to ensuring they can continue to deliver world-class patient care. Pay restraint has helped the NHS to recruit an additional 33,800 (6.4%) professionally qualified clinical staff since May 2010.