The support staff have been campaigning since 2023 to be regraded to a higher wage band of the NHS Agenda for Change salary scale that better reflects a change in their responsibilities.
HCArebanding
The NHS workers have been campaigning since 2023 to be regraded to the next band of the NHS Agenda for Change salary scale.

The South Tyneside and Sunderland health workers had also campaigned for months to be given fair back pay for the work they had already undertaken.

The union says staff should have been paid at a higher rate due to their increasingly complex duties and be awarded fair back pay.

Hundreds of healthcare assistants are to receive a substantial wage rise and back pay after their campaign to achieve fair pay brought the employers to the negotiating table
UNISON Cymru/Wales it to consult members in the NHS on new proposals put forward by the Welsh government
Healthcare assistants employed by North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been forced to take a further period of strike action in their dispute over wage rates and back pay, says UNISON today (Wednesday). The latest action will begin at 8am on Monday (20 May) and continue […]
More than a thousand healthcare assistants employed by North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are to take three further days of strike action in an escalation of a dispute over wage rates. The latest action will begin at 8am Monday (8 April) and continue for 72 hours […]
NHS staff across Teesside announce strike date in pay dispute, says UNISON Around 1,000 healthcare assistants at North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will take strike action next month in a dispute over pay, says UNISON today (Tuesday). Staff at the trusts’ seven sites* will walk out for […]
