Follow this link and select My Oldham News. We have many other newsletters that may interest you as well.On Tuesday, Sire Simon Stevens, chief executive of the NHS in England, confirmed that plans had previously budgeted for staff to get a 2.1% pay rise this year.Sir Simon said that proper recognition for what staff have been through over the course of the pandemic is “entirely right”.But he called for the independent pay review body to be allowed to do its work without “fear or favour”.Giving evidence to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee, Sir Simon said: “Coming out of the past year and everything that NHS staff have been through, proper recognition for that is entirely right.“And that goes with the grain of what the.