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The article discusses the challenges nurses face when seeking role re-grading and pay increases, suggesting these reviews may affect Band 5 status.
Too often nurses feel discouraged from putting in a bid to get their role re-graded (and resulting pay uplift) because they think it’s pointless. They will do all the legwork to produce the evidence, only for it to be dismissed for various reasons by employers. ‘Why bother?’, they understandably ask.
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