Pay tops the agenda at health conference

The focus of health conference turned to pay on Tuesday afternoon, starting with a presentation on the current NHS pay round from Sara Gorton (pictured), UNISON’s national secretary for health, and Helga Pile, senior national officer for health.
After setting out the differing context of the 2022/23 pay round in each of the four nations of the UK, they laid out the six core elements of the health service group’s pay strategy for the round:put pay right – an inflation-busting pa