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Health workers across the NHS are facing severe hardship due to the current economic crisis and the effect of a below inflation pay deal. With inflation running at a 16-year high, NHS unions have joined forces to press the government to reopen pay talks for next year. The unions argue that the three-year pay deal agreed earlier this year is now leaving hundreds of thousands of NHS workers struggling to make ends meet.

NHS discounts.com celebrates seven years of giving NHS employees more with a brand new look for its employee benefits site. Over the last seven years NHSdiscounts.com has grown to a membership of over 600,000 NHS employees by providing access to wide-ranging savings off holidays or chocolates to beds and iPods.

The NHS ballot calling for industrial action on the 'derisory' three-year pay deal, organised by Unite the Union, starts today (Tuesday, 28 October). A total of 100,000 ballot papers will be landing on the doormats of Unite members, working in the NHS, from this morning. The ballot closes on Wednesday, 12 November.