{"id":255146,"date":"2025-11-10T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255146\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:09:10","slug":"hospital-staff-get-four-years-back-pay-and-promotions-in-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255146\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital staff get four years back pay and promotions in new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 1,500 hospital workers in East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire will get four years back pay under a new deal.<\/p>\n

The trade union Unison and the NHS Humber Health Partnership have confirmed the deal for healthcare assistants which will also see them moved to a higher pay grade.<\/p>\n

The NHS Humber Health Partnership “valued members” of staff were being recognised for carrying out “additional duties”.<\/p>\n

Unison’s Hull and East Riding health branch secretary, Rachel Waters, said the deal would “ensure hundreds of frontline NHS workers are finally paid properly for the work they do”.<\/p>\n

Unison said healthcare assistants had been carrying out tasks such as taking blood, performing electrocardiogram tests and inserting cannulas, which should have been paid at a higher rate.<\/p>\n

The NHS Humber Health Partnership has agreed to move the workers up a pay grade, and date back pay to April 2021 to reward them for their work.<\/p>\n

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, the deal also includes employees who previously worked at the hospitals in Cottingham, Grimsby, Goole, Hull and Scunthorpe.<\/p>\n

The deal followed the regrading of maternity support workers employed by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust earlier this year, Unison said. <\/p>\n

Last summer, maternity support workers at Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby, carried out strike action over back pay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The union said the outcome is another success of its Pay Fair for Patient Care campaign, which has won more than \u00a3200m for more than 40,000 healthcare workers since 2021. <\/p>\n

Unison’s Grimsby, Goole and Scunthorpe health branch secretary Andrea Smith said: “Staff have been carrying out duties above their pay grade to make sure patients get the best possible care for years.<\/p>\n

“It’s only right that they are regraded and fairly compensated for the work they’ve done previously.”<\/p>\n

Ms Waters said: “It’s great news that so many staff will receive a pay rise in time for Christmas.”<\/p>\n

The NHS Humber Health Partnership spokesperson said: “It is part of a national change, but we are pleased to have reached a collective agreement with our staff side colleagues.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 1,500 hospital workers in East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire will get four years back pay under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-255146","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\/255146","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=255146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}