{"id":163664,"date":"2025-09-27T11:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163664\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:17:18","slug":"durham-and-darlington-unison-healthcare-staff-accept-pay-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/163664\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham and Darlington Unison healthcare staff accept pay deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unison staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital, University Hospital of North Durham, Bishop Auckland Hospital and Chester-le-Street Community Hospital were involved in the dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2024, the trust put healthcare assistants on a higher salary band, reflecting tasks like taking blood, performing electrocardiogram tests and inserting cannulas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust also previously said it backdated people&#8217;s pay on this higher band to July 2023, but the union said the move did not recognise that for years, workers had performed duties above their grade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The level of back pay for extra work they&#8217;d already done remained a sticking point, but staff have now agreed to accept a revised offer,&#8221; Unison said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The union said the new deal would see staff receive as much as \u00a35,500 in back pay depending on length of service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unison staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital, University Hospital of North Durham, Bishop Auckland Hospital and Chester-le-Street Community Hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-163664","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}