{"id":394193,"date":"2026-01-28T02:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394193\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T02:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:10:07","slug":"ni-health-talks-with-independent-care-workers-paused-since-pay-deal-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394193\/","title":{"rendered":"NI health: Talks with independent care workers paused since pay deal &#8216;U-turn&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ryan Williams, from care provider Connected Health, told the committee that the decision not to pay the Real Living Wage to staff had &#8220;exacerbated the problem&#8221; over retaining staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The breach of trust that we had in terms of this was that carers doing the same job inside the (NHS) system did get a pay award, and carers outside the system didn&#8217;t,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That kind of betrayal probably hurt us more than anything else, in that we weren&#8217;t valued in the same way, and that&#8217;s why carers just went: &#8216;Look, I have had enough of this profession&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Williams, from care provider Connected Health, told the committee that the decision not to pay the Real&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-394193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394193","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=394193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}