{"id":604,"date":"2020-11-25T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-in-newsweek-whats-in-u-k-spending-review-for-the-next-year-of-covid-crisis\/"},"modified":"2020-11-25T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T20:18:00","slug":"dauk-in-newsweek-whats-in-u-k-spending-review-for-the-next-year-of-covid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-in-newsweek-whats-in-u-k-spending-review-for-the-next-year-of-covid-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in Newsweek: What&#8217;s in U.K. Spending Review for the Next Year of COVID Crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Britain&#8217;s chancellor has the unenviable job of planning how to spend the country&#8217;s money against a backdrop of an economy devastated by the COVID crisis and huge job losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahead of his spending announcement, the chancellor insisted his &#8220;number one priority is to protect jobs and livelihoods&#8221; while promising to fund the National Health Service (NHS) as it continues to fight the pandemic&#8217;s second wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public sector workers appear to be in line to bear the brunt of that effort with a pay freeze, causing outrage that hospital staff on the frontline of the pandemic will be hardest hit. Mr. Sunak told Cabinet ministers they would have to &#8220;think about public pay settlements&#8221; in the context of the &#8220;wider economic climate&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Ellen Welch, who sits on a committee of the Doctors&#8217; Association U.K. (DAUK), tells\u00a0<em>Newsweek<\/em>\u00a0that if a potential pay freeze does hit those working within the NHS it &#8220;will come as a huge kick in the teeth for staff morale&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s chancellor has the unenviable job of planning how to spend the country&#8217;s money against a backdrop of an economy devastated by the COVID crisis and huge job losses.<br \/>\nDr. Ellen Welch, who sits on a committee of the Doctors&#8217; Association U.K. (DAUK), tells Newsweek that if a potential pay freeze does hit those working within the NHS it &#8220;will come as a huge kick in the teeth for staff morale&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,58],"tags":[38,106,39,33,42],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassionate-culture","category-the-nhs","tag-dauk","tag-doctors-association","tag-doctors-association-uk","tag-press","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}