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Nurses Pay

Asked if the Prime Minister thought that nurses in Gordon Brown’s constituency should be paid more that nurses in his own constituency, the PMOS replied that devolution gave the Scottish Executive the ability to make its own decisions in these matters.  In terms of the overall situation, people should notice that with various results from the Agenda for Change working their way through, the overall average increase of nurses pay in this part of the country would still be around 4%.  And the average nurses salary would now be somewhere around £32,000.

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  1. Does he ever actually answer a question he’s asked?

    Comment by wonkotsane — 15 Mar 2007 on 8:44 am | Link
  2. Does he ever actually answer a question he’s asked?

    Comment by wonkotsane — 15 Mar 2007 on 8:45 am | Link
  3. well, I have to work full-time nights and approximately 40 hours a month overtime to earn \xA332’000 – is that an average nurse?

    Comment by donna worrall — 22 Mar 2007 on 10:11 am | Link
  4. A young man named Gordon bought a donkey from an old farmer for \xA3100.00.
    The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day, but when the farmer drove up he said, "Sorry son, but I have some bad news… the donkey is on my truck, but unfortunately he’s dead. Gordon replied, "Well then, just give me my money back."

    The farmer said, "I can’t do that, because I’ve spent it already. Gordon said, "OK then, well just unload the donkey anyway. The farmer asked, "What are you going to do with him?" Gordon answered, "I’m going to raffle him off."

    To which the farmer exclaimed, "Surely you can’t raffle off a dead donkey!"

    But Gordon, with a wicked smile on his face said, "Of course I can, you watch me. I just won’t bother to tell anybody that he’s dead." A month later the farmer met up with Gordon and asked, "What happened with that dead donkey?"

    Gordon said, "I raffled him off, sold 500 tickets at two pounds a piece, and made a huge, fat profit!!"

    Totally amazed, the farmer asked, "Didn’t anyone complain that you had stolen their money because you lied about the donkey being dead?"
    To which Gordon replied, "The only guy who found out about the donkey being dead was the raffle winner when he came to claim his prize.
    So I gave him his \xA32 raffle ticket money back plus an extra \xA3200, which as you know is double the going rate for a donkey, so he thought I was great guy!!
    Gordon grew up and eventually became the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and no matter how many times he lied, or how much money he stole from the British voters, as long as he gave them back some of the stolen money, most of them, unfortunately, still thought he was a great guy.
    The moral of this story is that, if you think Gordon is about to play fair and do something for the everyday people of the country for once in his miserable, lying life, think again my friend, because you’ll be better off flogging a dead donkey

    Comment by erni holdan — 9 Apr 2007 on 8:40 pm | Link
  5. \xA332,000. average??

    how on earth do you come by this figure
    even with agenda for change the MAJORITY of qualified nurse must be in the band 5 band 6 bracket who earn no where near this amount

    Comment by lea weitzel — 18 Apr 2007 on 9:53 pm | Link
  6. \xA332,000. average??

    how on earth do you come by this figure
    even with agenda for change the MAJORITY of qualified nurse must be in the band 5 band 6 bracket who earn no where near this amount

    Comment by lea weitzel — 18 Apr 2007 on 9:53 pm | Link
  7. 32,000 pounds average??
    I’m sorry but this is a deliberte lie, as a band 6 my actual starting is 21,000..
    Again 32,000 is a COMPLETE LIE!!!

    Comment by Big J — 25 Apr 2007 on 8:33 pm | Link
  8. I have been qualifued for 10 years and being paid a band 6 (old scale G Grade. I am on \xA325,818. \xA332000 will be in quite a few years. the average nurse would get around 20-25000

    Comment by anon — 20 May 2007 on 2:27 pm | Link

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