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The 2022–2024 National Health Service (NHS) strikes were a series of concurrent industrial disputes in the publicly funded health services of the United Kingdom. The disputes related to the several staff groups on the Agenda for Change pay scale, as well as those on the junior doctor and consultant contracts.
The Drug Tariff, also known as Drug Tariff price, is that amount that the NHS in England and Wales and repays pharmacies for generic prescription medications. [1] It differs from prescription charges which are £9.90 per item/drug as of April 2024 unless exemptions apply.
The 2022–present National Health Service (NHS) strikes are several ongoing industrial disputes in the publicly funded health services of the United Kingdom.. The disputes relate to the several staff groups on the Agenda for Change pay scale, as well as those on the junior doctor and consultant contracts; and are further divided by the devolved national NHS staff work in.
However, people may be exempt from charges in various exemption categories. Charges were abolished by NHS Wales in 2007, Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland in 2010 and by NHS Scotland in 2011. In 2010/11, in England, £450 million was raised through these charges, some 0.5% of the total NHS budget. [1]
A mental health trust that was once the worst performing in the country has been removed from its "special measures" status after more than seven years, following improvements.
Agenda for Change (AfC) is the current National Health Service (NHS) grading and pay system for NHS staff, with the exception of doctors, dentists, apprentices and some senior managers. It covers more than 1 million people and harmonises their pay scales and career progression arrangements across traditionally separate pay groups, in the most ...
There are more than 6,000 people on the waiting list for a kidney transplant in the UK, and the NHS Blood and Transplant’s associate medical director for living donations Lisa Burnapp said a ...
In 2023, a report revealed that NHS staff had faced over incidents of 20,000 sexual misconduct from patients from 2017 to 2022 across 212 NHS Trusts. [citation needed] In June 2023, the delayed NHS Long Term Workforce Plan was announced, to train doctors and nurses and create new roles within the health service. [58]