{"id":255276,"date":"2025-11-10T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255276\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:40:09","slug":"hospital-staff-get-four-years-back-pay-and-promotions-in-new-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255276\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital staff get four years back pay and promotions in new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last summer, maternity support workers at Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby, carried out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx92z8eg4qpo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strike action over back pay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unison&#8217;s Grimsby, Goole and Scunthorpe health branch secretary Andrea Smith said: &#8220;Staff have been carrying out duties above their pay grade to make sure patients get the best possible care for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s only right that they are regraded and fairly compensated for the work they&#8217;ve done previously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Waters said: &#8220;It&#8217;s great news that so many staff will receive a pay rise in time for Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NHS Humber Health Partnership spokesperson said: &#8220;It is part of a national change, but we are pleased to have reached a collective agreement with our staff side colleagues.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deal followed the regrading of maternity support workers employed by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-255276","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\/255276","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=255276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}