Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland overwhelmingly reject 3.6% pay rise | Nursing

The nurses massively rejected the “grotesque” remuneration price of 3.6% of the government for this year, in a decision that could lead to the NHS faced with new strikes.

The members of the Royal College of Nursing in England, in Wales and Northern Ireland voted by a large majority against acceptance of the price during an indicative vote led by the union.

The RCN had previously called the figure of 3.6% “grotesque”, said that it would be “entirely swallowed by inflation” and stressed that it was less than doctors and teachers.

Well -placed sources indicate that the results of the union survey of the union with 345,000 members in the three countries, which is due later this week, will show a “clear” rejection of the price. This will increase the possibility that the NHS in different parts of the United Kingdom can cope with an autumn or a winter of disturbance renewed by the staff dissatisfied with their salary, as it did at the end of 2023 and early 2024.

Resident doctors – formerly known as junior doctors – in England, are the fourth day of a five -day strike in pursuit of their complaint for a salary increase of 29%. In addition, NHS staff in England belonging to the GMB union, including ambulance teams, rejected its price last week 3.6% during an advisory vote.

Sir Jim MacKey, general manager of NHS England, warned that “the disturbance continues in the coming months could see a snowball effect for patients and for staff” following doctors who continue to strike until the end of the year and other unions.

A RCN spokesperson said: “The results will be announced to our members later this week. Like most of the NHS workforce, nursing staff do not feel valued and the government must urgently start to overthrow the steam. ”

The nurses have seen the real value of their eroded salary of a quarter since 2010/11, due to low -remuneration awards and an increase in inflation, according to the union.

Wes Streting, the Secretary of Health, announced in May that he gave nurses a salary increase of 3.6% for 2025-2026. The governments taken away from Cardiff and Belfast also assigned the same sum.

The RCN will not follow the results of its indicative vote by then organizing a legal ballot for industrial action, unlike the British Medical Association, the Union of Physicians. Rather, they will ask the ministers to tell them about a range of changes to nurses, including better financial support for nursing students in order to tackle a drop in requests and changes to the agenda, the long-standing salary structure for non-medical NHS personnel on the level of the United Kingdom.

The BMA also began to seek the opinions of consultants – senior doctors of the hospital – and doctors of intermediate level in England on the 4% salary increase which was given to them this year during an advisory vote, which he called “an insult”.