It makes me so cross, within the NHS our pay has been frozen for the last two years, and before the freeze I only got 1% then if my memory serves me correctly. I never wanted to be a nurse for the money (just as well), it was always my burning ambition from being a very little girl,and I'm very lucky I think to have been in my job in some of the better times, so it makes me mad not so much for myself as I've nearly done my time, but for all those aspiring nurses etc, who will be put off.