{"id":256325,"date":"2026-01-28T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256325\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:57:07","slug":"staff-staging-longest-strike-in-nhs-history-are-to-get-one-off-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256325\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff staging longest strike in NHS history are to get one-off payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Specialist health workers taking part in the longest strike in NHS history are being given a discretionary one-off payment, health chiefs say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A total of 37 phlebotomists, who specialise in drawing blood, walked out of Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General hospitals in March 2025, more than 300 days ago, over a pay dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caroline Hayhurst, a striking phlebotomist, said: &#8220;We walked out on March 17 last year determined that we would stand our ground and receive proper pay for a job we love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kevin McNamara, the hospitals&#8217; chief executive, said the trust had made an offer of a new &#8220;higher-banded&#8221; role and the union is balloting on whether to accept this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Specialist health workers taking part in the longest strike in NHS history are being given a discretionary one-off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-256325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}