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NHS staff including nurses, paramedics, consultants, and dentists in England will receive a 3% pay rise backdated to April 2021. The offer, announced by the Department of Health and Social Care this morning (22 July) is an improvement on the 1% increase the government had recommended earlier this year, but still lags significantly behind the RPI rate of inflation (3.9% as at June 2021). The pay rise will mean the average nurse recieves an additional £1,000 a year, while many porters and cleaners will receive around £540. However, unions have expressed their disappointment with the offer, with the British Medical Association stating that it will leave some doctors whose pay is covered by previously-agreed pay deals worse off. BMA council chair Dr Chaand Nagpaul said: “It is disappointing that today’s announcement of a 3% pay uplift for doctors in England does not adequately recognise the extraordinary contribution of doctors working in the most challenging period in their professional lives. “Our members have been left exhausted, burned out and on the verge of physical and mental breaking point by the past 18 months. Junior doctors and GPs on multi-year pay deals in England have given just as much of themselves as all doctors to care for their patients – and yet have been callously disregarded in this pay award and will receive less than their peers. "In all, doctors, including those on multi-year pay deals, have given the same care to their patients. In recognition the government should now ensure they are all giv