The shadow health secretary has slammed the government for handing out "inflation-busting" pay rises in the health sector. It comes as nurses rejected the government's offer of a 5.5% pay rise after junior doctors voted to accept a pay offer worth an extra 22.3%.
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00:00This Labour government, in just 12 weeks, has lost control of the public sector independent
00:07pay process. This was completely foreseeable. The moment that the Health Secretary decided
00:14to give that inflation-busting pay rise to junior doctors, that was clearly going to
00:20have ramifications across the rest of the health service. And indeed, when I was Secretary
00:25of State, I was given very clear advice by officials that we had to be mindful of whatever
00:30we did with junior doctors or resident doctors would have an impact elsewhere in the system.
00:35And so I assume Mr Streeting was given that same advice, and it is his decision to have
00:41given this pay rise, and now we are seeing others in the health service are asking whether
00:46they are valued as highly by this government.