Most Scottish nurses didn’t strike this week. Unlike their equivalents at Westminster, Scottish ministers sat down with health unions, and agreed, in the face of spiralling prices, to raise their wages.
Yesterday, they announced how they’d pay for this – a penny on each of the higher rates of income tax, a billion pounds a year for health and social care. This will include a 7.5% raise for most staff, 11.24% for the lowest paid.
