NHS pay rise is just a sick joke

This Tory Government is lowering morale among our NHS staff even further with a miserly 1% pay rise. Who would want to work for an employer that doesn’t recognise the hard work, the exhausting demands of the job and the dedication showed by our medical staff ?

Our NHS is crippled by bad management and a lack of funding from a Government that is obsessed with cutting everything.

So much for the Prime Minister’s idea of a fairer society and helping the working people of this country. The proof is always in the pudding, not in fancy rhetoric.

How much more will NHS workers put up with before they say enough is enough? That is if they haven’t decided that already. Vince McAllister, Ely, Cambs

I have an incurable but currently manageable cancer and I am totally reliant on the NHS, as is my 54-year-old disabled daughter. The fact is the Government is deliberately destroying our NHS, a service that is, to a large degree, reliant on staff morale. Instead of giving NHS staff the wage increase they most definitely deserve, they give them a demoralising 1%, plunging a dagger right into the heart of the health service they are determined to destroy. John Sullivan Edgware, North London

The 1% pay rise the Government is giving to our dedicated health workers is an insult. Doctors, nurses, paramedics and all NHS staff do a fantastic job keeping our woefully underfunded health service going, yet have seen wages drop by 17% in real terms since the Tories took power in 2010.

Meanwhile, MPs award themselves inflation-busting salary increases and executive pay soars. Is this the kind of fair society Mrs May talks about? M Smith Castleford, West Yorks

In early March I sent emails to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and PM Theresa May, asking if there were any plans to sell the NHS. I requested an honest answer.

I know this is expecting a lot from politicians, but we live in hope.

As I have waited a month for a reply, I can only conclude there are plans to sell the NHS and put in place an insurance-based system like America has. It is time the British public woke up and realised this. Sue Clarke East London

The only way to stop the destruction of the NHS is to vote Labour. People say they won’t do this because they don’t like Jeremy Corbyn, but that’s cutting off your nose to spite your face. Would they rather see the destruction of our health service than have Mr Corbyn as Prime Minister? Colin G Bennett Banbury, Oxon

Why on earth are we standing for this? The NHS is one of this country’s greatest achievements and millions of lives have been saved because of it. It should be looked after above everything else. How much is a human life worth? Eric Burchill, via Mirror.co.uk