Over 1,500 hospital workers in the Humber region are to get back pay from April 2021
Over 1,500 hospital workers in the Humber region are to get back pay from April 2021. A deal has been reached between trade union UNISON and the NHS Humber Health Partnership to raise healthcare assistants in East Yorkshire and North East Lincolnshire up a grade.
Healthcare assistants were carrying out tasks, like taking blood, performing electrocardiogram tests and inserting cannulas. UNISON say they should have been paid at a higher rate.
The NHS Humber Health Partnership has agreed to move them up a grade, and provide back pay from April 2021 to compensate them for their work. The deal includes workers who previously worked at the hospitals too.
It follows the regrading of maternity support workers employed by NLAG earlier this year, UNISON says. UNISON Hull and East Riding health branch secretary Rachel Waters said: “It’s great news that so many staff will receive a pay rise in time for Christmas.
“It’s an excellent deal which will ensure that hundreds of frontline NHS workers are finally paid properly for the work they do.” The union says the outcome is another success of its Pay Fair for Patient Care campaign.
Through this, it has won more than £200m for over 40,000 healthcare workers since 2021. This has been based on healthcare workers who were graded Band Two but carrying out tasks of a Band Three nature, like monitoring heart rate and blood pressure.
NHS Humber Health Partnership were contacted for comment opportunity.