Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 192356

Hospices: Pay

Tabled: 4 July 2023
Answered: 10 July 2023
Named Day

Question

Karin Smyth

LabourBristol South

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) charitable hospices and (b) other voluntary sector organisations are represented in NHS pay negotiations.

Answer

Independent providers, such as charitable hospices and other voluntary sector organisations, are free to develop and adapt their own terms and conditions of employment, including the pay scales that they use. For that reason, it is appropriate that negoti...

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