Nurses and healthcare staff across Renfrewshire North and West and Scotland have been offered a pay increase of 5.5% that will ensure they have the best pay package in the UK.

The offer, if accepted by trade unions, will see an investment of more than £448 million in 2024-25 and will ensure almost 170,000 NHS Agenda for Change staff – including nurses, midwives, paramedics, allied health professionals, porters and others – benefit from the pay rise which will be backdated to 1 April 2024.

5.5% Increase for Nurses and NHS workers

This latest pay offer will ensure that Scotland’s NHS staff will have the best pay package of all NHS staff in the UK.

Natalie Don MSP said:

“This latest pay offer will ensure that Scotland’s NHS staff will have the best pay package of all NHS staff in the UK.

“We rely so much on our NHS staff to support us when we are ill and in need of help so it is great that we can support them as much as we can to ensure that they remain the highest paid NHS staff in the UK.”

Health Secretary Neil Gray said:

“Following weeks of constructive engagement with trade union representatives, I am pleased to have agreed an offer, in recognition of the Pay Review Body recommendations, that will ensure Scotland’s nurses and NHS staff have the best pay package in the UK. The unions will now consult their members and I hope it will be accepted.

“I want to express my thanks again to Scotland’s hardworking healthcare staff for their commitment and patience – they are the very backbone of the NHS and we are committed to supporting them, particularly during a cost of living crisis. I am grateful for the continued efforts around the table and that the trade unions will now put this to their members.”