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Your correspondent receiving £21.22 per hour for bank holiday/night duty (Letters, October) should spare a thought for health care assistants. Because they are not nurses, some of them without even a national vocational qualification (NVQ), they receive the national minimum wage and no enhancements for unsocial hours, night duty or bank holidays. Yet these are the people home managers and matrons rely on for the daily care and comfort of residents, and the good name and reputation of the nursing home.
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