Nurses In England Are Being Conned - NHS Pay Deal ‘Economic Madness', Suggests Political Economist

18th March 2023

With nurses set to vote on the Government's latest pay offer, a political economist and professor of accounting, has branded the NHS pay deal ‘economic madness'.

A new pay deal for NHS nurses was announced yesterday (17 March) that would give NHS nursing staff a one-off payment for the current financial year 2022/23 of around 6%, worth between £1,655 and £3,789, and a 5% consolidated (permanent) pay increase for 2023/24.

However, Mr Murphy, professor of accounting at the University of Sheffield and co-founder of the Tax Justice Network, told Nursing in Practice that he was ‘completely baffled' by the unions' decision. He said: ‘It is a terrible pay offer, it is economic madness to try and do the deal in this way.’

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Professor Richard Murphy sets it out very well. You need to think it through to what happens in the years to come if nurses accept this pay offer under these terms - worse off for many years to come.