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• • Pay and Agenda For Change

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RCM Wales members accept Welsh Government NHS pay offer

17 September 2018 Midwives and maternity support worker members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in Wales have accepted the negotiated proposals for NHS staff on the Agenda for Chang pay scale.

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• • Pay and Agenda For Change

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RCM launches member consultation on NHS pay offer

01 May 2018 Today the Royal College of Midwives launches its member consultation on the Government’s pay offer.  The online consultation will run from 1st-6th June 2018. The pay agreement will see midwives and maternity support workers receive pay ...

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• • Pay and Agenda For Change

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Royal College of Midwives comment on NHS pay agreement - ‘real about turn from recent years of pay stagnation’ says RCM

21 March 2018 Today the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and the other health unions have agreed in principal a three year pay package with the Government for NHS staff. This includes midwives and maternity support workers on the NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) ...

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• • RCM Scotland
  • Pay and Agenda For Change

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RCM welcomes Scottish pay award

11 June 2018 At the weekend the Scottish Government announced an immediate 3% pay award for all NHS staff on the Agenda for Change pay scale earning up to £80,000.

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• • Northern Ireland
  • Pay and Agenda For Change

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Have your say on pay in Northern Ireland

08 November 2018 The odds of women developing postnatal depression (PND) increase by up to 79% when they give birth to boys compared to girls, a research study has found.

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• • NHS Scotland
  • Pay and Agenda For Change

RCM Scotland comments on NHS pay

11 June 2018 Over the weekend the Scottish Government announced an immediate 3% pay award for all NHS staff on the Agenda for Change pay scale earning up to £80,000. This applies to staff including midwives and nurses.

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• • Leadership
  • Pay and Agenda For Change

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‘Scandal’ that in 2018 our NHS is still failing its BAME staff says RCM on new Government initiative

23 October 2018 Today the UK Government has published a new goal to eliminate the ethnicity pay gap in the NHS, and has committed to ensuring that black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) representation in senior leadership matches that across the rest of the ...

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• • Midwife Shortage
  • Pay and Agenda For Change

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Fought off regional pay and will fight again says RCM on Government regional pay reports

22 October 2018 Media reports today suggest that the Government may consider adopting regional pay, with public sector workers in different regions possibly being differently than their colleagues in other regions.

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• • Industrial Action
  • Pay and Agenda For Change

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Midwives in Northern Ireland vote for industrial action

21 November 2018 Midwives in Northern Ireland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking industrial action, including strike action, over their poor salaries.

RCM Opinion

• • MSWs - Maternity Support Workers
  • Pay and Agenda For Change

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RCM research MSW pay banding and job evaluation

26 November 2019 We have suspected for some time through anecdotal evidence that the NHS Job Evaluation Scheme is not being used properly in certain areas. Job evaluation underpins the entire Agenda for Change pay structure and ensures equal pay for work of ...