Closing remarks at our Prince of Wales nursing cadet scheme in NI given by Lord Lieutenant of County Down Gawn Rowan Hamilton. Thank you for joining us today.

I’m just thrilled to be at the RCN Prince of Wales Nursing Cadet NI celebration in Banbridge SR College. Our future is bright and in safe hands with these young people and hopefully future nurses. TY to the Lord Lieutenant of Co Down for joining us.

The search is officially ON! Nominations are now open for the Royal College of Nursing Wales Nurse of the Year Awards 2024. 🏆 #WalesNOTY24

Find out more about the award categories and submit your nomination. 👇 bit.ly/3wfazby

As the Rwanda Bill becomes law, the Royal College of Nursing will continue to oppose the government’s approach to asylum on medical, ethical and humanitarian grounds.

When Peter Maguire works a shift at a hospital in Dublin, he earns as much in one day as he would in a week in Northern Ireland’s NHS.
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Health visiting 2024 Andrea Leadsom MP

New nurses should get a starting salary of £35k in new nursing pay spine The RCN has told the government.

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The prime minister boasted last night that doctors were offered more than nurses.

Says all you need to know about the contempt he feels towards a 90% female profession.

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Digital NHS England 10/ Taking each group (NEW Dec 23 vs OLD Sept 23 as previously)

Finance & Bus. ⬆️ +7.9%,prev+6.6%
Prof Sci & Techn ⬆️+4.6%, prev+4.1%
All workers, All sectors ⬇️-0.9%,prev-2.1%
Nurses ⬇️⬇️ -7.9%,prev-8.7%
Junior Doctors ⬇️⬇️-23.6%, prev-24.3%
Consultants ⬇️⬇️-21.9%, prev -22.8%

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Digital NHS England 9/ The bottom line in the charts remains that NHS pay has STILL been *COMPLETELY DESTROYED* compared to 2009, but the whole economy fared pretty well vs CPI inflation, the most commonly used measure of 'headline inflation' which is generally preferred by government & economists

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Digital 8/ Worth pointing (again🥱) that *ALL* the variables in these charts are *official statistics*. Its either pay or inflation from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) (comparables), NHS pay & waiting list data from NHS England

Average pay is chosen as that is what's used by GOVERNMENT. And MOST commentators

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times Office for National Statistics (ONS) NHS England Digital 7/ As with the now expired charts I previously produced (they went to Sept'23 as that was then most recent data set) I added some other comparators, which are directly comparable to the NHS i.e. professional, technical & scientific- much better/fairer comparator for NHS staff👇

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times 6/ There's a small difference (circled) in 'all workers all sectors' (an Office for National Statistics (ONS) dataset) during the initial phase of COVID as I have chosen to average pay each month over the prior 12 month period (to better match the NHS England Digital Earnings Estimates methodology) = fairer comparison

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times 5/ Like many people I found the Financial Times charts extremely compelling. There are many different ways to measure pay loss, but I wondered if I could add consultants to the charts which I did - JBM kindly provided a graph to compare and as you can see they were essentially identical

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times 4/ It was this blatant gaslighting that we are the same (or even better than other groups), not only from government but also from the allegedly 'independent' DDRB, that inspired me on the back of the excellent Financial Times work to develop this pay erosion model based on official stats

John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times 3/ But its not just government ministers gaslighting NHS workers that they have no right for their pay to keep up (like everyone else's), it was also so-called 'independent' DDRB👇

Apparently doctors & dentists should not be protected when 'its not taking place in other groups'

2/ You'll notice when ministers are in the media, they often talk about how hard 'your viewers/listeners' have been hit by inflation. But what we need to do is separate fact from fiction (aka LIES), it was 👇excellent John Burn-Murdoch Financial Times chart that really showed this well last year

1/ NEW & IMPORTANT: LOTS of new data this week incl new pay data 28/3/24 👇 NEW charts incl NHS satisfaction (SPOILER: Its grim #MindTheGap )

MUST fix pay/retention to fix #WaitingLists - next GE WILL be won/lost on NHS.

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One of the reasons we started the #ProtectNurse campaign was due to a conservative candidate implying he was a registered nurse when he was not.
In the UK anyone can use the trusted title #Nurse even without any nursing qualifications, experience or registration.