RCN wants NHS pay deal extended to social care staff

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has called for the NHS pay deal to be extended to social care staff to avoid a ‘dangerous imbalance’ in the healthcare system. In a letter to health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt, the chief executive of the nursing union, Janet Davies (pictured), has called for more money to ‘level the playing field’ between the NHS and social care, as…