NHS pay: More health unions join backlash against 1% pay riseon March 6, 2021 at 1:13 am

Health staff “have literally kept the country alive for the past year”, says the British Medical Association.

“Our members are the doctors, nurses, midwives, porters, healthcare assistants and more, already exhausted and distressed, who are also expected to go on caring for the millions of patients on waiting lists, coping with a huge backlog of treatment as well as caring for those with Covid-19.”