Main Issues In Talks

Agreeing job description, salaries and numbers of staff nurses to be promoted to new senior staff nurse grade.

Agreeing job description, salaries and numbers of staff nurses to be promoted to new senior staff nurse grade.

Extending allowances worth between £1,000 and £1,500 to nurses not currently eligible, such as public health nurses and psychiatric nurses.

Allowing annual leave to be increased from 25 days to 30 days.

Securing the future of nurse tutors in the new, degree-based curriculum for nursing.

Scrapping the proposals that directors of nursing report to general managers.

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