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Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:06 | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk
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Nurses have reacted angrily to proposals to increase the pension age from 60 to 65.
When the General Election was announced, the Government said it would start from scratch in its pension negotiations with public service workers.
Delegates at the Royal College of Nursing’s annual conference made it clear they would not accept an increase and 96 per cent voted in favour of some form of industrial action should all other measures fail.
Action is not likely to lead to nurses walking out of wards but could see them abandoning paperwork and unpaid overtime.
The RCN said it did not believe that most nurses wanted to or were able to work beyond 60 years-of-age because of the emotionally and physically demanding nature of the job.
The nurses’ body urged the NHS to instead concentrate on supporting older nurses so that more may choose to work beyond the current retirement age.
Earlier this week it was reported that the NHS was facing a nurse recruitment crisis and the RCN believes increasing the pension age to 65 will worsen the problem.
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