{"id":7372,"date":"2016-09-10T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T04:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/pay-rise-unlikely-to-make-workforce-feel-valued\/"},"modified":"2016-09-10T04:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T04:00:55","slug":"pay-rise-unlikely-to-make-workforce-feel-valued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/pay-rise-unlikely-to-make-workforce-feel-valued\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay rise unlikely to make workforce feel &#8216;valued&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 1 per cent pay rise for NHS staff in Wales is unlikely to make the workforce feel &#8216;valued&#8217;, BMA Cymru Wales has said. The Welsh Government has accepted the recommendations on pay from the NHS pay review body and the review body on doctors&rsquo; and dentists&rsquo; remuneration.  It means that NHS Wales employees will receive a 1 per cent rise, while 7,000 staff currently on the Living Wage will also see their pay increase to the new Living Wage hourly rate of &pound;8.25 per hour.  The deal will also mean an overall increase for GPs in Wales of 2.2 per cent in pay and expenses.  Health minister Mark Drakeford said: &#8216;Our commitment to the NHS is unwavering and our staff are at the heart of the service. &#8216;We will continue to work closely with them, with trades unions and professional bodie&#8230;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/medworm.com\/index.php?rid=171135177&#038;cid=d_11_45_f&#038;fid=39072&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bma.org.uk%2Fnews-views-analysis%2Fnews%2F2016%2Fmarch%2Fpay-rise-unlikely-to-make-workforce-feel-valued\">MedWorm: Dentistry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1 per cent pay rise for NHS staff in Wales is unlikely to make the workforce feel &#8216;valued&#8217;, BMA Cymru Wales has said. The Welsh Government has accepted the recommendations on pay from the NHS pay review body and the review body on doctors&rsquo; and dentists&rsquo; remuneration. It means that NHS Wales employees will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[9410,8302,1122,9409,1519],"class_list":["post-7372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-news","tag-valued","tag-feel","tag-rise","tag-unlikely","tag-workforce"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YapV-1UU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}