title: Ministers need to heed nurses' message on pay.
abstract: Nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants will join NHS colleagues in England in protests this week at the government's decision not to award a cost-of-living pay rise this year. Thousands are expected to turn out at venues across the country on Thursday, when all the unions representing health service workers will join forces.
mesh_terms: D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000191:economics*; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom