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NHS pay in Wales 2024/25

The latest on the status of NHS pay in Wales

What is happening with pay for 2024/25?

The Welsh Government has committed to a Pay Review Body process to determine the steps for the Wales 2024/25 pay process.

Any resultant pay award would again be put to members, with CSP reserving the right to escalate to a pay dispute if the pay award is not acceptable.

In addition, as part of the pay deal for 2023/24, a commitment was made by Welsh government to work in social partnership on a number of non-pay elements.  These include, but are not limited to commitments to:

  • the principle of pay restoration to 2008 levels
  • discuss the pay award in Wales if consequential funding comes to Wales from the UK Government
  • reinstate unsocial hours allowance after 1 week of sickness absence
  • implement an all-Wales policy on Flexible Working, with the default position of acceptance
  • explore a reduction of the working week for Agenda for Change staff with the aim of moving to a 36 hour working week without loss of earnings
  • ensure employers enable time off for CPD

These continue to be progressed. A new All Wales Flexible Working policy, which puts acceptance as the default position, has been agreed and issued, the flexible retirement policy will be issued this February and a new CPD strategy has been developed.

Work continues on the other elements and should be delivered by the end of March.

What happened with 2022-24 pay?

In July 2022, the Welsh Government implemented a pay award for NHS staff in Wales for 2022-23 of £1,400, based on the Pay Review Body's recommendations. Our members rejected this award, and CSP members in Wales voted emphatically to take strike action for fair pay in February. 

The threat of CSP members taking strike action brought the Welsh Government back to the negotiating table. Joint trade union negotiators secured an improved pay offer of a 3 per cent uplift, 1.5 percentage points of which was consolidated. CSP members accepted this uplifted offer in a consultation survey in February 2023.

Shortly after this the UK government announced a revised England NHS pay offer for 2022-24, following strike action by the CSP and other health unions.  As a result of these factors, trade unions in Wales succeeded in negotiating a further uplift to the 2022-23 pay offer accepted by members. 

This was then  combined with a new pay offer for 2023-24. Members in Wales who voted emphatically to accept this new and improved pay offer for 2022-23 and 2023-24.

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