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The CSP has joined with other health trade unions to criticise failure to implement recommendations on 2026/27 pay for the HSC workforce. 

Physiotherapy continued to feature prominently in the media during March and April. 

The CSP is among the union delegations beginning talks this week over improvements to the NHS pay structure.

Unions including the CSP are encouraging members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to add their voice to calls for better NHS pay.

A pay award of 3.3 per cent per cent for NHS workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is unacceptable, the CSP says. 

The Department of Health and Social Care announced today that pay for all band 5 Agenda for Change NHS staff would rise ahead of negotiations over other changes to the contract. 

Through an article in Health Service Journal, the CSP has shone a national spotlight on the rapidly deepening physiotherapy workforce crisis.

The Employment Rights Bill, which introduces new rights for people in the workplace, cleared its final parliamentary hurdle following a vote in the House of Lords yesterday.

CSP is urging members to contribute to a review that will shape new allied health professionals (AHP) safe staffing guidance in England- a key non-pay win secured after the 2023 CSP strike. 

The CSP is urging members with lived experience to take part in the government’s Make Work Pay consultation on enhancing dismissal protections for pregnant women and new mothers.