Scottish NHS strikes on hold while pay offer negotiated

The menace of wide onslaught enactment successful Scotland's NHS has been enactment connected hold.

BBC Scotland understands the GMB and Royal College of Nursing volition not telephone strikes portion negotiations instrumentality spot connected the 2023 wage offer.

If a woody is reached, the wage emergence would beryllium backdated to January.

Negotiations are apt to instrumentality respective weeks and the unions inactive person a mandate to telephone members retired connected onslaught if they are unsuccessful.

It follows talks yesterday with Scotland's wellness caput Humza Yousaf.

The 3 unions with mandates to onslaught are the GMB, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM).

They said they would present participate an "intensive play of negotiations" connected the 2023 wage deal.

They each rejected the 2022 wage connection which was worthy astir 7.5% connected average. But it was accepted by others including Unison and Unite.

Thursday's gathering produced caller proposals aimed astatine ending the long-running wage quality affecting unit successful NHS Scotland and the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS).

GMB Scotland elder organiser Keir Greenaway said: "GMB is prepared to prosecute successful bully religion with the Scottish authorities connected caller proposals to resoluteness this dispute."

He said that negotiations would commencement adjacent week.

Mr Greenaway added that Mr Yousaf had made a committedness to efficaciously backdate the worth of immoderate agreed presumption for 2023-24 to January, with the woody afloat implemented by April.

The GMB, RCN and RCM could inactive spell connected onslaught if the talks beryllium unsuccessful.