One-off payments for health workers
The government will provide funding for over 27,000 more healthcare workers in England to receive two one-off payments – worth at least £1,655 and up to £3,000. Community nurses, sexual health workers, speech-and-language therapists, physiotherapists, and other crucial frontline workers are set to benefit. Organisations will receive funding for these payments over the coming months. Forming part of the wider NHS pay deal, one of the payments was specifically intended to recognise the sustained pressure facing the health service and the extraordinary effort staff have made to cut waiting lists.